gpg: error retrieving 'me@example.com' via WKD

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I am trying to encrypt a file locally and I get an error. me@example.com is a placeholder for my email address, a public key exists for that in my keyring and also on key servers. My private key is located on a hardware key (Yubikey). I can decrypt previously encrypted files with no problem. Here is the error:



➜ ~ gpg -e -r me@example.com somefile.txt 
gpg: error retrieving 'me@example.com' via WKD: General error
gpg: me@example.com: skipped: General error
gpg: somefile.txt encryption failed: General error


What does this error mean and how can I solve it?



P.S. There is only one more thing that might be related. My public key is expired.




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    WKD is the web key directory. Is adding the -vv option providing more insight what's going wrong?
    – Jens Erat
    Nov 19 '17 at 13:48










  • Adding -vv prints four more lines, three of them being gpg: Note: signature key ... expired and the last one gpg: <ke_id> skipped: Unusable public key. Apparently everything boils down to the key being expired.
    – Mehdi Sadeghi
    Nov 19 '17 at 21:16










  • Extending the key solved the problem.
    – Mehdi Sadeghi
    Nov 19 '17 at 21:23










  • Glad you figured it out on your own. Feel free to add this as an answer -- this seems a rather new combination of weird error message and actual issue.
    – Jens Erat
    Nov 19 '17 at 21:55














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I am trying to encrypt a file locally and I get an error. me@example.com is a placeholder for my email address, a public key exists for that in my keyring and also on key servers. My private key is located on a hardware key (Yubikey). I can decrypt previously encrypted files with no problem. Here is the error:



➜ ~ gpg -e -r me@example.com somefile.txt 
gpg: error retrieving 'me@example.com' via WKD: General error
gpg: me@example.com: skipped: General error
gpg: somefile.txt encryption failed: General error


What does this error mean and how can I solve it?



P.S. There is only one more thing that might be related. My public key is expired.




gpg




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  • 1




    WKD is the web key directory. Is adding the -vv option providing more insight what's going wrong?
    – Jens Erat
    Nov 19 '17 at 13:48










  • Adding -vv prints four more lines, three of them being gpg: Note: signature key ... expired and the last one gpg: <ke_id> skipped: Unusable public key. Apparently everything boils down to the key being expired.
    – Mehdi Sadeghi
    Nov 19 '17 at 21:16










  • Extending the key solved the problem.
    – Mehdi Sadeghi
    Nov 19 '17 at 21:23










  • Glad you figured it out on your own. Feel free to add this as an answer -- this seems a rather new combination of weird error message and actual issue.
    – Jens Erat
    Nov 19 '17 at 21:55












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I am trying to encrypt a file locally and I get an error. me@example.com is a placeholder for my email address, a public key exists for that in my keyring and also on key servers. My private key is located on a hardware key (Yubikey). I can decrypt previously encrypted files with no problem. Here is the error:



➜ ~ gpg -e -r me@example.com somefile.txt 
gpg: error retrieving 'me@example.com' via WKD: General error
gpg: me@example.com: skipped: General error
gpg: somefile.txt encryption failed: General error


What does this error mean and how can I solve it?



P.S. There is only one more thing that might be related. My public key is expired.




gpg




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I am trying to encrypt a file locally and I get an error. me@example.com is a placeholder for my email address, a public key exists for that in my keyring and also on key servers. My private key is located on a hardware key (Yubikey). I can decrypt previously encrypted files with no problem. Here is the error:



➜ ~ gpg -e -r me@example.com somefile.txt 
gpg: error retrieving 'me@example.com' via WKD: General error
gpg: me@example.com: skipped: General error
gpg: somefile.txt encryption failed: General error


What does this error mean and how can I solve it?



P.S. There is only one more thing that might be related. My public key is expired.





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    WKD is the web key directory. Is adding the -vv option providing more insight what's going wrong?
    – Jens Erat
    Nov 19 '17 at 13:48










  • Adding -vv prints four more lines, three of them being gpg: Note: signature key ... expired and the last one gpg: <ke_id> skipped: Unusable public key. Apparently everything boils down to the key being expired.
    – Mehdi Sadeghi
    Nov 19 '17 at 21:16










  • Extending the key solved the problem.
    – Mehdi Sadeghi
    Nov 19 '17 at 21:23










  • Glad you figured it out on your own. Feel free to add this as an answer -- this seems a rather new combination of weird error message and actual issue.
    – Jens Erat
    Nov 19 '17 at 21:55












  • 1




    WKD is the web key directory. Is adding the -vv option providing more insight what's going wrong?
    – Jens Erat
    Nov 19 '17 at 13:48










  • Adding -vv prints four more lines, three of them being gpg: Note: signature key ... expired and the last one gpg: <ke_id> skipped: Unusable public key. Apparently everything boils down to the key being expired.
    – Mehdi Sadeghi
    Nov 19 '17 at 21:16










  • Extending the key solved the problem.
    – Mehdi Sadeghi
    Nov 19 '17 at 21:23










  • Glad you figured it out on your own. Feel free to add this as an answer -- this seems a rather new combination of weird error message and actual issue.
    – Jens Erat
    Nov 19 '17 at 21:55







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WKD is the web key directory. Is adding the -vv option providing more insight what's going wrong?
– Jens Erat
Nov 19 '17 at 13:48




WKD is the web key directory. Is adding the -vv option providing more insight what's going wrong?
– Jens Erat
Nov 19 '17 at 13:48












Adding -vv prints four more lines, three of them being gpg: Note: signature key ... expired and the last one gpg: <ke_id> skipped: Unusable public key. Apparently everything boils down to the key being expired.
– Mehdi Sadeghi
Nov 19 '17 at 21:16




Adding -vv prints four more lines, three of them being gpg: Note: signature key ... expired and the last one gpg: <ke_id> skipped: Unusable public key. Apparently everything boils down to the key being expired.
– Mehdi Sadeghi
Nov 19 '17 at 21:16












Extending the key solved the problem.
– Mehdi Sadeghi
Nov 19 '17 at 21:23




Extending the key solved the problem.
– Mehdi Sadeghi
Nov 19 '17 at 21:23












Glad you figured it out on your own. Feel free to add this as an answer -- this seems a rather new combination of weird error message and actual issue.
– Jens Erat
Nov 19 '17 at 21:55




Glad you figured it out on your own. Feel free to add this as an answer -- this seems a rather new combination of weird error message and actual issue.
– Jens Erat
Nov 19 '17 at 21:55










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Extending key expiration date fixed the problem. The error message was misleading. However adding -vv as Jens Erat suggested produced some useful error messages such as gpg: Note: signature key ... expired and gpg: ... skipped: Unusable public key that helped finding the actual error.






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