Each person has a private key and a public key. Theoretically, gopass should work out-of-the-box and is compatible with the old pass utility. Gopass 1.6.12 has support for subkeys added to a .gpg-id file, this no longer works for either the 1.8 or 1.7 versions. Or is … I just restarted my machine and it was working again. Thanks. So after searching around I found that I need to set the GPG_TTY variable: To decrypt the file, they need their private key and your public key. Tearing my hair out a bit here, struggling with the same issue. Ahh, that's a whole different issue than. We cannot use the non-graphical pinentry . GPG relies on the idea of two encryption keys per person. Somebody has had access to the secret key once. Then Computer B can use that public key to encrypt some data, which it can then transmit to Computer A. All to no avail. Most curiously, this happens not just with pass but also with plain gpg decryption (gpg -d ). After setting this environment variable (and adding it to the .bash_profile), gopass works as expected. @dennisdegreef has a great article about setting keys in GPG: http://www.dennisdegreef.net/2015/07/yubikey-neo-with-pgp-subkeys/. 4 posts • Page 1 of 1. by Tech Support » Tue Aug 28, 2012 6:37 pm . Discuss encryption/decryption issues. You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for user: "Warren Severin (replaces 3CF67BAB6C4105E8 which has been revoked) "2048-bit RSA key, ID 6EE32E11, created 2012-12-09. gpg: cancelled by user gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit RSA key, ID [my key ID], created 2016-09-02 "[my name] <[my email]>" gpg: public key decryption failed: Operation cancelled gpg: decryption failed: No secret key I expected to be greeted with a GUI (or TUI, if I'm in a tty) asking for my passphrase, now no … Edit: Turns out an update to I presume gpg caused it to no longer automatically know which pinentry application to use. Here’s how I did it. If the missing secret key is stored on a smart card / USB token, please see the next section. I don't know how to show options for GPG keys, but the following command output may be interesting: @fturco @tristan-k What operating system are you running? EDIT: Or maybe not, see this, It might be the Gnome Keyring https://github.com/IJHack/qtpass/blob/master/FAQ.md. Not sure I extracted the key correctly as it was too long for electrum. GPG relies on the idea of two encryption keys per person. See the screenshot below for how I answered the questions that followed. Few things to check: 1) If you are using Service, strange results can often occur if the service account is different from the user account that imported the key. $ gpg2 --decrypt accounts.org.gpg gpg: encrypted with RSA key, ID E295ECEC7CC8AAC6 gpg: decryption failed: No secret key How was the Emacs on the other machine (using same configuration, same version of Emacs (25.1) and same OS (Fedora 24 x86_64, same version of gpg and gpg2 packages)) read from it and write to it. I tried changing settings in Configuration > Programs from "native git/gpg" to "use pass" but Qtpass always returns me the same error. gpg2: no secret key, Previous message (by thread): [Enigmail] qualifizierte elektronische with the error: Missing passphrase gpg: decryption failed: No secret key -failed-secret- key-not-available-error-from-gpg-on-windows#7974613 and The message wasn't encrypted to your public key. Could be related to the "single instance" stuff which will soon be fixed. Anyway using, So I was quite surprised to see an error message like this: Strange. take private key and process it to make WIF. I deleted everything I had done and started again from scratch. You could try removing the config from ~/.config/IJhack/qtpass (or something close to that, on mobile atm), If all else fails I'll have a look to see if I can reproduce this error tonight. Key Maintenance. And is it failing with pass in the commandline too or only with QtPass using pass as backend? I've tried re-exporting/importing the keys (pub + priv), and I've tried killing gpg-agent by various different means, all of this to no success. To send a file securely, you encrypt it with your private key and the recipient’s public key. I don't think implementing gpg1 compatibility will be a thing I'm likely to add in the forseeable future though. A workaround would be to aliased gpg to gpg2 in your .bashrc. $ gpg -d foo.asc (X dialog that prompts me for passphrase, I just press enter) gpg: public key decryption failed: No passphrase given gpg: decryption failed: No secret key I would like to be able to use my keys again. The corrected line: key was listed. gpg 2.2.20 doesn't work: "gpg2 -d test.txt.gpg" "gpg2 -vv --debug-level 8 -d test.txt.gpg" gives, in addition to what the gpg command outputs: gpg: decryption failed: No secret key gpg: keydb: handles=2 locks=0 parse=0 get=2 gpg: build=0 update=0 insert=0 delete=0 gpg: reset=0 found=2 not=1 cache=0 not=0 I don't mind setting a passphrase from now on but I don't know how: Issue After using the su command to switch users, gpg doesn't allow entering a passphrase -- whether encrypting, decrypting, or generating a new key with gpg --gen-key . To send a file securely, you encrypt it with your private key and the recipient’s public key. Especially when migrating to GPG2, sometimes keys do not get imported into the new keyrings. gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available. Better commands, which avoid use of temporary files: @muminoff I tried killing gpg-agent like this, but wasn't able to wait long enough for it to complete (about 2 minutes). S.gpg-agent.browser: But directly using gpg -d .password-store/test.gpg works fine and I can decrypt. I do use Gnome Keyring but I disabled the autostart with X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false in ~/.config/autostart/gnome-keyring-gpg.desktop. While it’s still early days, and I am by no means a gpg expert (who is? gpg: decryption failed: No secret key This sent me into a wild rage, and after spending far too much time trying to debug with no results, I switched tactics; remove GPGTools and install gpg myself. ~$ gpg2 -d --quiet --yes --compress-algo=none --no-encrypt-to --batch --use-agent /home/mash/.password-store/test.gpg gpg: decryption failed: No secret key. Each person has a private key and a public key. In this case: gpg> passwd Key is protected. :). We’ll occasionally send you account related emails. There is an easy way of doing this with the GPG software. gpg --import < ~/.gnupg/secring.gpg. You could try switching to gpg in the "programs" tab in config but we also use the batch features of gpg2 like pass.. Simple fix is to import your secret key into gpg2. Thus pass -c test now works for me. Tried to remove purge everything and reinstall and still nothing. Which is entirely as expected, as the file was encrypted using john@johnsmith.com's public key.John will obviously need his private key in order to decrypt it. But when I call the package from a SQL Server Agent job, in the log file I get: The process exit code was "2" while the expected was "0". Or (if set) the hide to systray or menu bar feature. Tried removing and reinstalling but no joy. There are some useful options here, such as -u to specify the secret key to be used, and -r to specify the public key of the recipient. gpg2 --decrypt < ~/.password-store/foo prompts me for my passphrase in pinentry-gtk, but then it outputs. GPG generate private key and export. gpg: encrypted with RSA key, ID 8ACF6864. Steps To Reproduce $ gopass-1.8 generate test How long should the password be? Have a question about this project? I am using Homebrew to install gopass on my machine: brew install gopass. [GNUPG:] DECRYPTION_FAILED gpg: decryption failed: No secret key [GNUPG:] END_DECRYPTION It appears that GPG-agent cannot be connected to. I don't mind setting a passphrase from now on but I don't know how: ... Key Server: GPG Mail no longer working after macOS update: GPG Mail not in Manage Plug-ins list after installation or doesn't remain active: Trusting keys … This way you can often exclude that the problem is within the frontend. Unfortunately we can't "wrap" the cli passphrase dialog. I'm getting the same issue with Fedora 22. $ gpg --import ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg $ gpg --import ~/.gnupg/secring.gpg But even after importing the keys, I still received gpg: decryption failed: No secret key . Do this by running the command: gpg --gen-key. Have spent two whole days trying every solution I could find on the web, with no joy. I suffer from the same, running on Arch too. gpg-generated keys don't make it into the secure keyring in gpg2. Now both gpg and gpg2 can read my secret key and all is well: @gmp216 Thank you so much for sharing, I had the same problem with pass and your solution worked for me as well. Since wrapping that would expose your passphrase/pin to QtPass, which is very bad from a separation of concerns PoV. same problem on macOS, without using QtPass (can be reproduced when asking multiple password in parallel (from a python script or shell for example)). Running qtpass returns nothing. Should the secret key still be missing after this command and it's not stored on a smart card / USB token, please create a new discussion. As of a week ago I started getting this decryption failed error, interspersed with the occasional timeout error and the occasional success. I try to use GPG to sign files but something confuses me: If I enter in the terminal (the file I want to sign is called "checksums") it says: $ gpg -s checksums You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for user: "[my name] <[my email prefix]@gmail.com>" 4096-bit RSA key, ID C457C71D, created 2015-01-16 I built it while making dotgpg and it was inspired by (and shares code from) the awesome ASN.1 decoder.. To use it, just paste a GPG message in the box below and click Decode. gpg2 is already set in the config. There is currently no sane way to use that in combination with qtpass. OS: Fedora; OS version: Linux; gopass Version: 1.7, 1.8 GPG/PGP Decoder. -- Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is a wonderfully simple way to manage passwords using PGP to encrypt passwords in text files. For different reasons I am now migrating to gopass, a Go implementation of pass with a few additional features. When I ran gpg -K I saw both keys; when I ran gpg2 -K only the original After importing, you may need to update the trust on your key. Should the secret key still be missing after this command and it's not stored on a smart card / USB token, please create a new discussion. I normally have the Pinetry window popup asking me to enter my passphrase, but I am not prompted for my passphrase. drop last 4bytes and first 1 byte??? gpg: decryption failed: No secret key Note: The message is encrypted for the following User ID's / Keys: 0xC8FED7D95D4C54DD Chosen solution Appreciate the advise. Thanks, Krishna I can confirm that killing the agent did fix the issue. Yeah, sorry to bother you, I think it is another error. [GNUPG:] DECRYPTION_FAILED gpg: decryption failed: No secret key [GNUPG:] END_DECRYPTION It appears that GPG-agent cannot be connected to. Hi, @metanerd what OS / Distro etc are you running? Sorry that this isn't really the right place but it's somehow become the most informative page on the net about this issue with GPG...! You should see a Secret key is available. Which is quite misleading. With a bit of luck I can try these things out tonight on a clean Ubuntu VM. I'm able to decrypt using gpg2 -d test.gpg, but in qtpass: It never ask me for the passphrase, shouldn't it to this? The passphrase dialog, is that a graphical or text-based one? Perhaps using qtpass with your patched pass might also work. I'm also able to see my gpg secret key with the following command: The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: Which options did you set for your GPG keys? Related: #156. If GUI frontend applications fail, try to do the operations on the command line. By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and It runs without any problems both in Visual Studio and when I do 'Run Package' through SSMS (running on the server). gpg: decryption failed: No secret key. GPG is a open software and PGP is a propietary software but both working same. You signed in with another tab or window. You're mixing two very different encryption concepts here: Symmetrically encrypting data using a passphrase (a shared key) that both parties will need to have, and using asymmetric encryption to encrypt a (symmetric and usually … But we do have to adres this issue! It help me too! gpg --export-secret-keys [ID] > private.key. My knowledge of cryptography and GnuPG is quite limited. So tried the following which works (note: had to remove --batch --use-agent)... gpg -d --quiet --yes --compress-algo=none --no-encrypt-to /home/mash/.password-store/test.gpg. Now both gpg and gpg2 can read my secret key and all is well: $ gpg --export [ID] > public.key $ gpg --export-secret-key [ID] > private.key $ gpg2 --import public.key $ gpg2 --import private.key $ rm public.key private.key. ), everything seems to be working fine. Simple fix is to import your secret key into gpg2. Working on it, seems to mostly be a gpg2 or wrong settings for pinentry issue. Killing gpg-agent and running pass accout/foobar on command line work, also in QtPass. Setting it specifically fixes it, e.g. Although qtpass still doesn't return anything. If the missing secret key is stored on a smart card / USB token, please see the next section. My ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf specified a pinentry-program that was not installed on my system. Ah, ok. I mean nothing, no program, no error, nada. If you know who that is and he still has the key then you can ask him to export it for you. drop last 4bytes and first 1 byte??? import into electrum. It is a wonderfully simple way to manage passwords using PGP to … gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit RSA key, ID D86A742B, created 2015-06-15 "Mark Johnson " gpg: public key decryption failed: Invalid IPC response gpg: decryption failed: No secret key Well running qtpass doesn't do anything. Cheers! If this is the case, I could report this back to the arch maintainer to get it fixed downstream. I just installed Qtpass. gopass: “gpg: decryption failed: No secret key” For a few years now I have been using the pass password manager . import into electrum. (wild guess), $ uname -a Linux Ubuntu 3.19.6 #1 SMP Wed Apr 29 11:04:21 MDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux, I just tried to use my password-store with just pass and I'm getting the same error. gpg: public key is 8ACF6864. Recently had pass "break" on me, and this thread is all I could find so far. However, there is just a little typo mistake in your answer which made your fix failed in my first try. I have restarted multiple times as well. As an example: gpg -e -u "Charles Lockhart" -r "A Friend" mydata.tar To decrypt data, use: gpg -d mydata.tar.gpg So after searching around I found that I need to set the GPG_TTY variable: It seems that not setting the GPG_TTY environment variable leads to the error above. Currently qtpass only works with a graphical "pinentry" dialog. gopass: “gpg: decryption failed: No secret key”. So, fire up Computer A first and create a private key. OK thanks, fiddled around ~/.config/IJHack/QtPass.conf and no joy. For me none of the above solutions provided did work. I'll see if there is a way to (via environment variables or such) force the use of a graphical version when using qtpass. After using the su command to switch users, gpg doesn't allow entering a passphrase -- whether encrypting, decrypting, or generating a new key with gpg --gen-key. No translations currently exist. Anyone have any other ideas or steps I can take to debug? Linux tzara 4.3.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.3.5-1 (2016-02-06) x86_64 GNU/Linux. The same files can then be placed in a git repository, which makes replicating passwords easy. Hi, Is the gnupg version of arch just missing some compile-time flag to support--passphrase-file without manual pinentry? $ gpg -decrypt message.asc You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for user: "John Q. Smith " 1024-bit ELG-E key, ID 939A094A, created 1999-09-28 (main key ID FFF5BD5A) Enter passphrase: _ After typing your passphrase, you will see the message: $ gpg -decrypt message.asc Then Computer B can use that in combination with qtpass using gpg: decryption failed: no secret key gopass as?. 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