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

[Nuno Teixeira]

Hi,

Follow this instructions about pgp, simple examples and you will lear more
about gpg.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-gpg-to-encrypt-and-sign-messages

Csanyi Pal <csanyipal at gmail.com> escreveu no dia sábado, 1/02/2020 à(s)
13:17:

> In my case I haven't any backup of mine GPG secret key here.
>
> So I removed my stored and lost passwords from password-store.
>
> I just initialize this password-store with the command:
> pass init csanyipa at gmail.com
>
> I shell store here my passwords again.
>
> I am just curious: can one decrypt it's password-store with command
> which is opposite to the
> pass init command?
>
> 2020. 02. 01. 10:53 keltezéssel, Emil Lundberg írta:
> > 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
> > <mailto: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
>
>
> --
> Best, Paul Chany
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