On 8 September 2016 at 09:56, Patrick Brunschwig <patr...@enigmail.net> wrote: > On 08.09.16 16:31, Tom Ritter wrote: >> On 7 September 2016 at 18:07, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <d...@fifthhorseman.net> >> wrote: >>> On Wed 2016-09-07 20:47:59 +0200, Tom Ritter wrote: >>>> Strangely, all the items I replaced with AAAA etc are not in my >>>> keyring. Checked by doing gpg --fingerprint --fingerprint --list-keys >>>> | grep AAAA (with the first 4 octets of each key). >>> >>> are you sure about that? pinentry refers to a key by its "keygrip", >>> which is distinct from the OpenPGP fingerprint. iirc, the keygrip >>> calculated over just the raw public key info, while the OpenPGP >>> fingerprint includes some additional OpenPGP-specific boilerplate as >>> well as the key creation time. >>> >>> If you try --with-keygrip do the values make any more sense? >> >> I'm sure it didn't match any fingerprints, but it did indeed match keygrips. >> =) >> >> With the debugging output (it didn't seem to add anything though...), >> I now have: >> >> gpg-agent[38031]: handler 0x700000081000 for fd 5 started >> gpg-agent[38031]: DBG: chan_5 -> OK Pleased to meet you >> gpg-agent[38031]: DBG: chan_5 <- RESET >> gpg-agent[38031]: DBG: chan_5 -> OK >> gpg-agent[38031]: DBG: chan_5 <- GETINFO version >> gpg-agent[38031]: DBG: chan_5 -> D 2.1.13 >> gpg-agent[38031]: DBG: chan_5 -> OK >> gpg-agent[38031]: DBG: chan_5 <- OPTION allow-pinentry-notify >> gpg-agent[38031]: DBG: chan_5 -> OK >> gpg-agent[38031]: DBG: chan_5 <- OPTION agent-awareness=2.1.0 >> gpg-agent[38031]: DBG: chan_5 -> OK >> gpg-agent[38031]: DBG: chan_5 <- OPTION pinentry-mode=loopback > > I think the problem is here: pinentry-mode=loopback. > > If I'm not mistaken, this means that no pinentry GUI is called, but the > passphrase query is redirected to the caller (gpg), which would need to > provide the passphrase somehow differently.
That was the problem. I found a line enabling that in my gpg.conf and removing it fixed it. Thank you both for the help! -tom _______________________________________________ enigmail-users mailing list enigmail-users@enigmail.net To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription click here: https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
