gpg: decryption failed: No secret key

[Faramir]

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Charly Avital escribió:
> Joe Demeny wrote the following on 5/16/08 11:35 AM:
>> I'm trying to decrypt a message using KMail and gpg and it fails. I then tried 
>> to manually decrypt the encrypted part and this is what I got:
...
>> I'm wondering what the error "No secret key" means? Am I trying to decrypt the 
>> message with the wrong key? Or have I broken my gpg setup?
> 
> 
> Key ID CF8503BE that was used to encrypt that message is the encryption
> subkey of:
.....
> That key belongs, therefore, to Janos Dohanics <web at 3dresearch.com>, who
> is the only person who can decrypt that message, *if* he has in keyring
> the above key, and *if* he knows the required passphrase.

  Joe Demeny, do you know how does private/public key encryption work? I
mean, the general idea, not the "magic" involved in it. If you don't, we
can explain it to you, so you can avoid these problems. But if you
already know about it, then maybe you will require some troubleshooting
with the specifics of your installed software setup, and I am not sure
if this is the best place to ask for it (if the problem is GNUpg setup,
clearly this IS the right place to ask for help. But if the problem is
the KMail setup, I am not so sure... anyway, I wouldn't complain if
somebody gives you support for KMail. But I am just a new user here, so
I can just speak for myself).

  Regards
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