From: Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: decrypt a file with hidden key (EPA)
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2015 09:30:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <848u7navwa.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.87.1443680829.16064.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Philipp Haselwarter <philipp@haselwarter.org> writes:
> I'm trying to use emacs to decrypt a file that was encrypted with gpg's
> hidden-encrypt-to option, i.e. the file doesn't tell which key it was
> encrypted for. But epa doesn't query me for a key to use during
> decryption, it just fails with
>
>> Error while decrypting with "gpg":
>>
>> gpg: encrypted with RSA key, ID 00000000
>> gpg: decryption failed: No secret key
>
> Can EPA be configured to deal with this? Or is there something smart in
> my gpg.conf missing?
+1 (I'm also interested in answers to these questions.)
Sidenote: Actually it is possible to decrypt a file which has been
encrypted with the hidden-encrypt option by referencing the key
explicitly. E.g. concretely
gpg --try-secret-key 3E7C2CBACBABDA5BD6995A4C49010A040A3AE6F2 encrypted.file.gpg
--
Marco Wahl
GPG: 0x49010A040A3AE6F2
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