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Re: "secret key not available". "unable to sign the tag".

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Nov 18, 2008, 04:21 UTC
Message-ID
<alpine.LFD.2.00.0811172019080.18283@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To
<424422.27374.qm@web37902.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Gary Yang wrote:
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> 
> gpg: WARNING: using insecure memory!
> gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html for more information
> gpg: skipped `Gary Yang <garyyang6@yahoo.com>': secret key not available
> gpg: signing failed: secret key not available
What does
	gpg --list-secret-keys
say? Have you actually set up a key for that email address?
		Linus
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