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gpg: ify: skipped: public key not found when I made the encryption myself

I am trying right now to set up my own encryption with private and public key. I am following this tutorial:

http://wooledge.org/~greg/crypto/node41.html

when I try to use

gpg -verify message.asc,

it says the

gpg: ify: skipped: public key not found gpg: message.asc: encryption

failed: public key not found

When I look at my public keys it says

MYNAME@ubuntu:~/.gnupg$ gpg --list-keys /home/MYNAME/.gnupg/pubring.gpg ---------------------------------------- pub 2048R/FF713BDB 2016-02-04 uid MY NAME sub 2048R/9168A1D6 2016-02-04

I tried to import my public key and I get nothing. I am sure it is a basic problem, but I have no idea of what to do.

Solution

  • Figured out the answer, the tutorial says

    -verify message.asc

    where it should be

    --verify message.asc