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On 11-02-15 16:48, Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
> 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
> 
Thanks! I had to reboot, but now it's working!
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