Can encrypt with no problem. When right click on file to decrypt, no pass phrase box comes up. Can encrypt with no problem.
Error message: “The file ‘[file location and name].gpg’ contains certificates and can’t be decrypted or verified.”
No changes to computer, just stopped working.
hi,
according to the error message [file location and name].gpg does not contain encrypted content but OpenPGP keys. those can be imported, but not “decrypted”.
you can open a command line and call gpg [file location and name].gpg without further arguments to examine it.
It was a collection of documents zipped and then encrypted by one of our contacts for two different addressees. One had no problem and their GPG installation decrypted it without issues. The one in this computer didn’t and complained as reported.
Problem fixed. All five files we could not decrypt were empty - something to do with downloading from Thunderbird.
@slba thanks for reporting what the problem was!
thanks for reporting this as solved.
FWIW, regarding the suggested command, i did not include -d or any other option on purpose. gpg tries to guess what to do with a given file if no particular option was given. in this case, however, you would have seen the same error message, and i think that gpg should do better than returning “unknown system error” if it was given an empty file.
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