Can't decrypt my passwords: gpg: decryption failed: No secret key

[Emil Lundberg]

If you have a backup of your GPG secret key, you can restore that and use
it to re-encrypt your passwords to the new key.

If you do not have a backup, your encrypted passwords are permanently lost.
There is no way to recover them without the secret key.

I'm sorry to bring the bad news, if that is the case.

/Emil

On Sat, 1 Feb 2020, 10:26 Csanyi Pal, <csanyipal at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I messed up my GPG secret key and password-store system here.
>
> I do not understand how GPG works.
>
> I removed with Seahorse my old secret key so now pass show command does
> not shows any passwords out there.
>
> Eg:
> pass show AvilagHalon/Telefonjaim/Telenor
>
> gives this message.
> gpg: decryption failed: No secret key
>
> How did I get into this trouble?
>
> I am going to change my Desktop Environment from Xfce4 to LXQt.
>
> So when I am logged in at LXQt then I couldn't use passwords with pass,
> or QtPass. I do not remember why not.
>
> Probably I removed with Seahorse the old GPG secret key so I can't
> decrypt my passwords stored in password-store.
>
> At the same time I created a new key pair with gpg and tried to use with
> it the password-store but without success.
>
> What can I do now to get my passwords back?
>
> --
> Best, Paul Chany
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