I have a gpg key file that is used as passphrase for decrypting a dat pgp file The encrypted data pgp file gets successfully decrypted on one server with same key file using following command cat xxx gpg key usr bin gpg --batch --quiet -o xxx dat --passphrase-fd O -d xxx dat pgp But when I move same key to another server xxx gpg key and run same above command I get following error - gpg decryption failed No secret key EDIT I find that gpg --list-secret-keys returns some data on server where it works but no results are returned for other server How can we configure secret key

gpg decryption fails with no secret key error

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I just ran into this issue, on the gpg CLI in Arch Linux. I needed to kill the existing "gpg-agent" process, then everything was back to normal ( a new gpg-agent should auto-launch when you invoke the gpg command, again; ...).

edit: if the process fails to reload (e.g. within a minute), type gpg-agent in a terminal and/or reboot ...

~ Answered on 2017-02-26 18:57:45

gpg decryption fails with no secret key error

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