decrypt : primary key or subkey ?

[David SMITH]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 04:23:58PM +0200, Bruno Costacurta wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm not able to decrpyt message as I received hereafter message about using 
> subkey instead of primary key. 
> 
> Is this correct ? Could it be the problem relies on the usage of this subkey ?
> If yes, how to manage my keyring regarding this 
> subkey (which is obviously used for en/decrypting not for signing) to be able 
> to decrypt ?

IME it is normal to get this message when using subkeys.

If you do 'gpg --list-keys --verbose', does it list the subkey 0CC897B5?
What about when you do 'gpg --list-secret-keys'?


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