Good day! Hope you well I’m getting over frustrated for the past 2 days to try to make simple tasks working aka PgP!
I used on tails a fantastic Pgp that even a not so good like me after 20 years of microsoft could understand… So i try to get something on kde Manjaro but really what I got was more error messages that I ever seen in my all life at Microsoft so first I tried the good old Kleopatra, first issue were actually straight away I could not create a keys with a Paraphrase… (see pic)
Then I try the good old Kgpg and that wasn’t much better as I could not decrypt any messages and run into a lot of error messages too:
[GNUPG:] ERROR pkdecrypt_failed 83918950
[GNUPG:] ERROR pkdecrypt_failed 83918950
At the end of my frustration I was wondering if any of you would have something simple that reliable and work easy… Normally Kleopatra on W10 isn’t too bad but had no luck here in Linux unfortunately
Thanks!
However… seahorse, it is a GTK application, works out-of-the-box for me. Nothing needed to be added, because it is uses gnome-keyring as backend and not python-gpg or pinentry.
Hello megavolt! Hope you well I also found this solution but unfortunately this did not work at all also the suprising thing is I do not have anything into my folders .gnupg and even after creating those two files I could not decrypt anything…
I m pretty sure it must be me doing something wrong there very frustrating! I’m fairly new to PGP so lets go back to basic, you first create a private keys then send you public keys to you friend or people you want to communicate with then you copy their public keys. After both of us had public keys had to the ring we should be able to communicate privately correct? Everytime I give a try between both of my laptop is not doing anything and pop message of error saying it impossible to decrypt…
Tried everything nothing works
gpg --decrypt message.asc
gpg: decrypt_message failed: Unknown system error
I got 4 private keys for trying I did run some test with my other laptop same issue with both software Kleopatra can’t create any private keys with password and for KGPG impossible to decode any keys… It’s just weird I never had any issue like this before is any change we can delete and restart the gnupg like rebuild it from scratch? ( I m a super noob so may be a stupid question that one…)
This also happend on Kleopatra do you have the same issue???
Good news So I found something!!! This don’t work on Kleopatra only kgpg!
First delete the folder ./gnupg and everything! Like delete kleopatra and kgpg!
Then restart the all thing! Install Kgpg and the ./gnupg folder will be create (as you may know) then I create a htlm folder with the name of gpg,conf and I could create a key! With kgpg only tho kleopatra doesn’t work at all!
So I also made a mistake myself I did not realise that with Kgpg you have to sign the imported keys before using it so that worked after I sign it! Good news!
Now the only issue I have with kgpg is I can not delete a test keys tho! I can click and try to delete the keys this doesnt work never even after restarting… I have to go to gnpg and delete everything manually… I’ll try to chomd -R the folder for Kleopatra ! I ll let you know…
It’s quite bizarre that yours works perfectly! I try in both of my laptop and both had issues!
Edit I try to change the Chmod and chown with kleopatra and still have this error message
“Could not create key pair: Inappropriate ioctl for device”
Okay we got some move there so I stop having “Inappropriate ioctl for device” after adding export GPG_TTY=$(tty) to both files but now I got this message of error