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On 11.02.15 15:25, Dimitri Dhuyvetter wrote:
> On 11-02-15 14:36, Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
>> On 11.02.15 14:17, Dimitri Dhuyvetter wrote:
>>> As of lately it has become impossible for me to sign outgoing 
>>> messages or decrypt incoming messages. Sending encrypted 
>>> messages seems to still work, but saving an encrypted message 
>>> as draft resulted in an empty draft message. I already tried 
>>> un-installing (apt-get purge) Enigmail, but that didn't help.
>> 
>>> I have been using Engimail in Thunderbird on Ubuntu for quite
>>> a while now and it worked fine until now. I have the private 
>>> keys, I have checked in Enigmail Key Management and on pgp 
>>> command line.
>> 
>>> Mails I received and was able to decrypt before I get an error
>>>  now (the padlock with the red circle with a cross) and the 
>>> message:
>> 
>>>> "Enigmail Security Info
>>>> 
>>>> Error - decryption failed Public key C6BDEA6A5D9FF1A0 needed
>>>>  to verify signature
>>>> 
>>>> gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available
>>>> 
>>>> Note: the message is encrypted with the following User ID's
>>>> / Keys: 0xC6BDEA6A5D9FF1A0 (Dimitri Dhuyvetter 
>>>> [email protected])"
>> 
>>> I am still able to decrypt them using gpg command line, the 
>>> secret key is definitely in my keyring.
>> 
>>> On outgoing messages I try to sign I get the error:
>> 
>>>> Enigmail Alert
>>>> 
>>>> Send operation aborted.
>>>> 
>>>> Error - bad passphrase
>> 
>>> But I don't get prompted for a password.
>> 
>>> Any tips on how I could proceed to solve these issues?
>> 
>> Did you recently upgrade to GnuPG 2? The most common problem on 
>> Linux is that gpg-agent can't launch pinentry, because the used 
>> pinentry is console-based.
>> 
>> You might want to check if in ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf points to
>> a graphical pinentry tool, such as pinentry-qt or pinentry-gtk 
>> (parameter "pinentry-program".
>> 
>> -Patrick
>> 
> 
> I haven't switched to pgp2, but when I do and try to send a signed
>  message, I get the error:
>> Send operation aborted.
>> 
>> Key 0x8C693450 not found or not valid. The (sub-)key might have 
>> expired.

The problem is that the message from GnuPG is very much misleading if
gpg-agent cannot launch pinentry. GnuPG reports that the key is not
found instead of telling that something went wrong in the interaction
between gpg, gpg-agent and pinentry.

Please add the following line to gpg-agent.conf
pinentry-program /full/path/to/pinentry-...

where ... is gtk, gtk2, qt, qt4 or similar (depending on what is
installed).

Then killall gpg-agent and retry.

- -Patrick

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