On 20.02.13 20:22, John A. Wallace wrote: > When I use Enigmail to decrypt messages made with“--throw-keyids”, I > have noticed that it will select the keys to try one-by-one until I have > entered the correct passphrase or until it has tried them all. > However,I ran into a situation with a new key on my keyring that is > getting skipped over during the sequence of selections. I looked for any > obvious characteristic differences and noticed in OpenPGP Key Management > window that this key has been made with a different algorithm from my > others. The primary key uses DSA and the subkey ELG. In contrast, the > algorithm for my other keys, both primary key and subkey,is RSA. I am not > sure that this explains the different behavior during the trial and > error selection process, but it is something I am curious about. Any ideas > about it would be welcome.
The fact that gpg jumps over a DSA/ElGamal key during iteration of a message encrypted with --throw-keyids does not come from the different algorithm. In fact, until 2009, it was the standard algorithm due to patent issues, and there are really _a lot_ of those keys in use. So, there must be something different other than the type. How do you provide the passphrase(s)? Do you use enigmails internal dialog or gpg-agent? Actually, the behaviour you are observing, is not related to enigmail, as the iteration is done by gpg on its own. So maybe you may get more and better answers on the gnupg mailinglist. HTH Ludwig _______________________________________________ enigmail-users mailing list [email protected] https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
