[Psi-Devel] gnupg encryption key invalid

[Raffael]

Justin Karneges wrote:
> On Friday 04 April 2008 11:12 pm, Raffael wrote:
>> Norman Rasmussen wrote:
>>> On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Raffael <rjr84 at student.canterbury.ac.nz> 
> wrote:
>>>>  has anyone a solution to this problem?
>>>>  I use Psi v0.11 and a friends key expired, but he changed the date...
>>>> so it should be fine now. gpg --list-keys says: [expires: 2008-12-20]
>>>> But psi tells me that
>>>>  "There was an error trying to send the message encrypted.
>>>>  Reason: Encrypting key is invalid." ...
>>> Maybe your key expired?  or if really is his key, then did his client
>>> reload the new key? (Is it using the same key chain?)
>> My key is fine until 2009. His client should be fine, since he was
>> already working with that key and he changed the date a while before it
>> expired. It is the same key chain...
>>
>> I am pretty sure that his side doesn't matter, because the message isn't
>> even sent (no activity in the xml console).
>>
>> I also tried to re-bind the key to the contact... but didn't change
>> anything...
>>
>> Oh and I use a intel mac, if that matters.
> 
> I suggest trying 0.12 RC2 and reporting the Diagnostics text for the error 
> (the error window has a button for this).

Thank you for that hint. This is the error message:

> GPGProc: Pipe setup complete
> GPGProc: Running: [/usr/local/bin/gpg --no-tty --enable-special-filenames --status-fd 26 --command-fd 23 --armor --always-trust --encrypt --recipient 0x********
> GPGProc: Process started
> {INV_RECP 0 0x********}
> GPGProc: Status: Closed (gone)
> GPGProc: Process finished: 2
> GPGProc: Done
> GPG Process Finished: exitStatus=2
> stderr: [gpg: 0x********: skipped: unusable public key
> gpg: [stdin]: encryption failed: unusable public key
> ]
> GpgAction error: ErrorEncryptInvalid

Not that this helped... the problem was much simpler. The key and the
encryption subkey were expired. But only the main key was updated :/

Sorry for bothering you ;)

Cheers,
 Raff

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