gpg fails to decrypt with "public key decryption failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • GPG throws the below error after upgrading to RHEL 8:

    gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit RSA key, ID 12345678ABCDEFG, created 2020-01-01
    "Development Key <developers@email.com>"
gpg: public key decryption failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
gpg: decryption failed: No secret key

  • After performing an upgrade from RHEL 7 to RHEL 8 GPG encryption commands are failing with Inappropriate ioctl device for device error.

  • gpg fails to decrypt on RHEL 8

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and above
  • GnuPG

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