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Show "key specification <keyid> is ambiguous" when abmiguous keys are the same key
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czchen added a project: Bug Report.Dec 13 2015, 1:54 PM
czchen added a subscriber: czchen.Dec 13 2015, 1:56 PM

The following error messages are showed when trying to decrypt a file.

% gpg2 file.gpg
gpg: key specification 'BE0C924203F4552D' is ambiguous
gpg: (check argument of option '--encrypt-to')
gpg: 'BE0C924203F4552D' matches at least:
gpg: EC9F905D866DBE46A896C827BE0C924203F4552D
gpg: EC9F905D866DBE46A896C827BE0C924203F4552D

The content of ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf contains the following lines to read Debian keyring to verify all Debian member
signature. My keyring is in both $HOME and Debian keyring.

keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.gpg
keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-maintainers.gpg

czchen added a comment.Dec 13 2015, 2:12 PM

Look like the issue is solved in 6dc37c5fb60acbfd5ba2ab979852383eac8944e0.

czchen closed this task as Invalid.Dec 13 2015, 2:12 PM
czchen removed a project: Bug Report.
neal added a subscriber: neal.Dec 15 2015, 8:58 AM

Thanks for reporting the issue and for following up. For future reference, if
you find that a bug is not a bug, please also change its status to resolved.
Thanks!