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bug#9255: Obscure epa-file error message
From: |
Daiki Ueno |
Subject: |
bug#9255: Obscure epa-file error message |
Date: |
Mon, 08 Aug 2011 10:54:41 +0900 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> Opening output file: Encrypt failed: ((exit) (invalid-recipient (reason . 0)
> (requested-recipient . "36DB083C608CC24C")))
>
> It turns out the problem was simply that my encryption key was expired.
> Could someone figure out how to get a more helpful error message?
I guess you won't get any further information even if you call gpg from
the command line:
$ gpg --encrypt -r A6CC6651 test.txt
gpg: A6CC6651: skipped: unusable public key
gpg: test.txt: encryption failed: unusable public key
where A6CC6651 is my expired public key.
BTW, gnupg/doc/DETAILS specifies that INV_RECP status should accompany a
reason code 4 for expired keys, but currently it is 0 ("No specific
reason given"). I'll file a bug against GnuPG.