Hi. Actually, I had a closer look at the key, and all I had was the revoked public key, not the private bit. So I deleted it. I still maintain that EasyPG should act the same as gpg when it comes to specifying recipients. On 8/30/19 3:10 PM, Beto HydroxyButyrate wrote:I have a test file named Test1.gpg with the following at the top: ;; -*- epa-file-encrypt-to: ("beto@zepherin.com") -*- I write out the file. It throws this error: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Opening output file" "Encrypt failed" "Unusable public key: 4253BDD3FF52DC13; Exit") signal(file-error ("Opening output file" "Encrypt failed" "Unusable public key: 4253BDD3FF52DC13; Exit")) epa-file-write-region(nil nil "/home/user/Documents/Auth/Test1.gpg" nil t "~/Documents/Auth/Test1.gpg" nil) apply(epa-file-write-region (nil nil "/home/user/Documents/Auth/Test1.gpg" nil t "~/Documents/Auth/Test1.gpg" nil)) epa-file-handler(write-region nil nil "/home/user/Documents/Auth/Test1.gpg" nil t "~/Documents/Auth/Test1.gpg" nil) write-region(nil nil "/home/user/Documents/Auth/Test1.gpg" nil t "~/Documents/Auth/Test1.gpg") basic-save-buffer-2() basic-save-buffer-1() basic-save-buffer(t) save-buffer(1) funcall-interactively(save-buffer 1) call-interactively(save-buffer nil nil) command-execute(save-buffer) The problem is that EasyPG selects the revoked key. The solution is *not* to delete the revoked key from my keyring. I need the revoked key to be able to decode email previously sent encrypted using this revoked key. I did some googling and saw that there have been at least two other reports of this issue, but someone hacked up a kluge specifically for email, rather than fixing the general case. In GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 1, x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.23.2) of 2018-08-13 built on buildvm-13.phx2.fedoraproject.org Windowing system distributor 'Fedora Project', version 11.0.12004000 System Description: Fedora release 29 (Twenty Nine) Recent messages: <<< Type SPC or RET to bury the buffer list >>> Saving file /home/user/Documents/Auth/Test1.gpg... epa-file-write-region: Opening output file: Encrypt failed, Unusable public key: 4253BDD3FF52DC13; Exit <<< Type SPC or RET to bury the buffer list >>> Mark set t [2 times] <<< Type SPC or RET to bury the buffer list >>> Saving file /home/user/Documents/Auth/Test1.gpg... Entering debugger... <<< Type SPC or RET to bury the buffer list >>> Configured using: 'configure --build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix= --disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib64 --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-dbus --with-gif --with-jpeg --with-png --with-rsvg --with-tiff --with-xft --with-xpm --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-gpm=no --with-xwidgets --with-modules build_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu host_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu 'CFLAGS=-DMAIL_USE_LOCKF -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection' LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro PKG_CONFIG_PATH=:/usr/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND DBUS GSETTINGS NOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 MODULES THREADS XWIDGETS LCMS2 Important settings: value of $LANG: C.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Debugger Minor modes in effect: shell-dirtrack-mode: t show-paren-mode: t display-time-mode: t minibuffer-electric-default-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t buffer-read-only: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. 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