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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: underearth on November 17, 2011, 04:41 am
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I am new to the community here but I'm starting to see this is really something very special and unique.
If anybody has any experience with running the GPA or GNU Privacy Assistant to encrypt and decrypt I would appreciate your help.
When I try to decrypt a message I am constantly getting this error message:
"The GPGME library returned an unexpected error. The error was: General error This is probably a bug in GPA. GPA will now try to recover from this error."
Obviously closing the program and trying again does not work. Is there a setting that I am unaware of that will allow me to use the software without these error messages???
There have been some great tutorials listed on this community forum which have helped me grasp other issues, but I cannot find anything to explain the problem that I'm having now. I would be very grateful if someone could help me out with this.
Thanks again.
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I followed this tutorial pretty much exactly. There was a step that wasn't included though... a part about "root certificates." Is this something necessary to do what I want to do with GPA?
Otherwise, I consider myself pretty computer savvy but I'm not sure what you mean about a terminal window or how to get there. Any chance I can get you to describe this process in a little more detail for me? Can I use this method to decrypt and encrypt messages???
THANKS!!
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I followed this tutorial pretty much exactly. There was a step that wasn't included though... a part about "root certificates." Is this something necessary to do what I want to do with GPA?...
"Root certificates" makes it sound like you're trying to work with Kleopatra, rather than just GPA (which is all that's required). My experience -- and that of some others -- is that Kleopatra tends to overly complicate things for what we're trying to do here (in addition to being crash prone). Try launching GPA by itself. If that's not possible, you might try uninstalling and reinstalling *without* Kleopatra.
Let us know how it goes; there's almost always some one here willing to help out with technology problems.