Re: no encrypt key for [email protected]

Gottfried <[email protected]> Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:53:50 +0000
Newsgroups	gmane.emacs.gnus.user,gmane.emacs.help
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
thanks very much tpeplt,

through your mail I found my keys and copied it into the key folder,
but those were the public keys.

So I am one step further.

2.
I tried to send an encrypted mail through gnus
and it worked.
but I can´t open an encrypted email in gnus.

may be the private key is missing.
I can´t find my private keys, in order to copy it to the key folder, 
which emacs shows.

I read through the emacs manual and found:

Mml Default Encrypt Method
but no
Mml Default Decrypt Method


in opening an encrypted message, the one I sent in gnus,
it asks me about decryption,
but it fails to decrypt

may be it means I have to set up something in my gnus.el

then I found on the web:
https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/19266/automatic-gpg-signature-verification-and-decryption-with-gnus

;;for encryption and decrytion of mails
(setq mm-verify-option 'known)
(setq mm-decrypt-option 'known)

and but not least in the gnus manual the security section,
which gives me those variables.

After putting them into my gnus.el
I was not asked any more for decrypting my email
but it did it automatically.
but it failed.

so what is missing?
my private keys? or some settings?

thanks

Gottfried


Am 27.02.26 um 22:09 schrieb tpeplt:
> Gottfried <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>>
>> Am 27.02.26 um 20:14 schrieb W. Greenhouse via Users list for the GNU
>> Emacs text editor:
>>> gfp <[email protected]> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>> I read through the manual
>>>> My first problem is to find the pgp keys which I have set up in
>>>> Icecat/Thunderbird.
>>>> In Emacs they don´t appear. I can´t find them.
>>>> this comes up in the terminal:
>>>> gfp@Tuxedo ~$ gpg --list-keys /home/gfp/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
>>>> ---------------------------- pub   rsa4096 2022-10-19 [SC]
>>>> D24DDAC9226D5BA5E9F3BED3F5DAAAF74AD4C938 uid        [ unbekannt ]
>>>> Trisquel GNU/Linux Archive Automatic Signing Key (11/aramo) <trisquel-
>>>> [email protected]>
>>>> but where are the OpenPGP keys I created in icecat?
>>>> thanks
>>>> Gottfried
>>>
>>> Likely on a separate keyring somewhere in Icecat's configuration/data
>>> files, rather than in your user's global GnuPG configuration as above.
>>>
>>
>> yes, I found it in Icedove/Thunderbird (not Icecat sorry)
>>
>> /home/gfp/.thunderbird
>>
>> but how can I now find it in emacs?
>>
> 
> Emacs includes an Encryption/Decryption menu, see
> 
>     Emacs menu -> Tools -> Encryption/Decryption
> 
> Try:
> 
>     Save your file "pubring.kbx" to something unique.
>     For example
>     $ cp pubring.kbx gotts-keys.keys
> 
>     Then import keys from your ".thunderbird" file:
> 
>     Emacs menu -> Tools
>                   -> Encryption/Decryption
>                      -> Import Keys from File...
> 
>     Then check your keys with:
> 
>     Emacs menu -> Tools
>                   -> Encryption/Decryption
>                      -> List Keys
> 
>     If this does not show the keys that you expect, then you
>     can restore your keys from your "gotts-keys.keys" file.
>
OpenPGP_0x61FAF349C9FB7F94.asc (application/pgp-keys, 4.6 KB)
OpenPGP_signature.asc (application/pgp-signature, 840 B)