Sup everyone, so i have had a recurring issue lately when interacting with a friend. I do have his public key, he does have my public key. We’ve been talking to each other through encrypted messages for over a year now and lately i’ve ran into the same problem where when i try to decrypt his messages i get the following on top of my notepad:
''Notepad → Notepad: Decryption succeeded.
Note: You cannot be sure who encrypted this message as it is not signed.
Recipient: ‘‘my username’’ (4493 7A29 D0F6 3F98)‘’
and then underneath where i pasted the encrypted message, it transforms into the following:
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----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=yuuQ
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----
Thing is after the last message i received from said friend, i decrypted all the other messages that didn’t went thru and i always end up with the exact same out come every single time.
I’m on Windows 11, i have the latest Kleopatra version and i’ve exchanged encrypted messages with alot of people(including 4 as of lately) and i’ve never ever had to deal with this issue before so part of me wants to believe that my friend is probably doing something wrong but i ended up having 1 of their recent message actually decrypt properly but other than that i have absolutely no clue about what is going on here. I tried looking up on Google and YouTube for possible answers but so far i haven’t found anything so hopefully anybody here can enlighten me because it’s kinda irritating me.
Thanks in advance for the help.