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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: eleusis on November 17, 2012, 02:43 pm
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Hi I would really appreciate some help from someone knowlegeable on GPA/GPG I have been using this current version / keys for a little over a month and have decrypted messages in this time.
Now when I attempt to decrypt I get this message
The GPGME library returned an unexpected error. The error was
General error
This is probably a bug in gpa
GPA will now try to recover from this error
I have tried restarting ect and am truly stumped now (not that it takes much when it comes to computers) can anyone help?
Peace
L
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Hi I would really appreciate some help from someone knowlegeable on GPA/GPG I have been using this current version / keys for a little over a month and have decrypted messages in this time.
Now when I attempt to decrypt I get this message
The GPGME library returned an unexpected error. The error was
General error
This is probably a bug in gpa
GPA will now try to recover from this error
I have tried restarting ect and am truly stumped now (not that it takes much when it comes to computers) can anyone help?
Peace
L
You may have to ditch GPA. You'd better off with GPG4USB. PM me with your OS Version, and I'll try to walk you through migrating your keyrings over to GPG4USB.
Nightcrawler
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Dont want to hijack thread but reading this raised a question in my mind. Nightcrawler you have said it is possible to migrate the keyring....what about my own public/private key that I have generated. I see all the reccome4ndations to go to PGP4USB but didnt want to spend the time to repost a new key so was waiting till I was bored. I was wondering if it was possible but had my doubts
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Dont want to hijack thread but reading this raised a question in my mind. Nightcrawler you have said it is possible to migrate the keyring....what about my own public/private key that I have generated. I see all the reccome4ndations to go to PGP4USB but didnt want to spend the time to repost a new key so was waiting till I was bored. I was wondering if it was possible but had my doubts
Sure, it's possible to transfer over your keys, both public and private.
The easiest and fastest way to do this is to use the command-line.
First you need to open up a terminal or command-prompt. From the command-prompt, issue the following commands:
Exporting your public keys: gpg --export --armor -o public_keys_exported.asc
Since you haven't specified a key to export, gpg will export all the public keys on your PGP keyring to an ascii-armored key block. The -o directive tells gpg the name of the file to export the keys into. So, in this case, your public keys will be found in the file public_keys_exported.asc
Exporting your private keys: gpg --export-secret-keys -o secret_keys_exported.asc
This will export all your secret keys to an ascii-armored key block named, in this case, secret_keys_exported.asc
You can use the import key button on the GPG4USB toolbar to import the secret keyblock first, followed by the public key block.
Nightcrawler