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GnuPG decrypt automated message from Launchpad

Asked by Dr Small

In launchpad, I went to add my OpenPGP key, and they said they had to verify it.
So they sent out an automated email to me, and I have to decrypt the message in order to access the url.

Well, I am having problems decrypting the message. I have tried using the command line:
$ gpg --decrypt launchpad.gpg

I have tried using FireGPG, I've had a friend encrypt a message for me, using my Public key, and attempt to decrypt it, all along with no luck. I do receive an error message from gpg when in the command line, but have yet to find any remedies for it:

gpg: invalid radix64 character 21 skipped
gpg: invalid radix64 character 3F skipped
gpg: CRC error; 2BA7FA - EEB87D

I pasted the exact PGP message sent from launchpad, to a file, (including the beginning and ending comment tags) into a file called launchpad.gpg and I can not decrypt it from the command line, nor from seahorses "Decrypt a File" in Gnome.

Any help would be appreciated in this area, as to what I could try to be able to decrypt GPG messages.
Thanks,
Dr Small

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Matthew Donovan (kitchetech) said : 		#1

To me it looks like you have a bad key, but could be the key server you are using by chance what is the public gpg key so I can do a check on it. or you can do a search for your key here http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search= after the search= is where you put in your public key. so it would look like this http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=<key>. Of course replace <key> with your own public key.

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Matthew Donovan (kitchetech) said : 		#2

The urls is if you are using pgp.mit.edu for your key server which a lot of people use.

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Dr Small (drsmall) said : 		#3

Hmm. Well I got irritated at the encrypted message from Launchpad, so I canceled the verification of it, from Launchpad, did it again, and this time it recognized it. I closed firegpg, went to my previously received encrypted message from my friend, and it didn't work.

Went back to the launchpad email, now it didn't work.
Closed firefox, brought it back up, went into my webmail, now it worked. Now it is working every time.
I simply don't get it...

So, did I submit the wrong fingerprint and wrong public key to my friend, since I couldn't decrypt either of those? I am still somewhat confused about this.

Also, here is my key on the ubuntu keyserver, since I have gotten it verified:
http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?search=0x26FD8AF9&op=index

Dr Small

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Matthew Donovan (kitchetech) said : 		#4

well firegpg isn't that great anyways I know people that use it and find many bugs in it

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Dr Small (drsmall) said : 		#5

Ok. Thanks for all the help ;)
Dr Small