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Re: gpg: secret key without public key - skipped



On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Andre Berger wrote:
> andre@mir:~/.gnupg$ gpg --edit-key 4EB21729
> gpg: key 4EB21729: secret key without public key - skipped
> gpg: 4EB21729: user not found
> 
> The same when I send a message. How can I get rid of that.

You need the public key. *IF* you sent it to a keyserver, fetch it back
using --recv-key. If you sent it to a friend, ask him to email it back to
you and --import it.

If the public key was really lost, you're better off generating a new key
pair.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh



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