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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! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJU3KrmAAoJEBiOPxCMaTRQHRAQAJPoTPs/sjzXydbeCnyE2BsW ulV2xFC0YY+FW7oErxyouG+Zsvpl8FZSXHFYXlz7YGLENwX/HqTlHJoIN38vx9xs knlVuy27GHuM8DYJJW1FYvczGonvH6LOktP4bcdektcnOK6MRdkn5L4J7HqHmiQ1 O2PYcYrUekP2OWZxFtYuMP+rYpY3bkjRt+zkit/x+55yjjbNxrVcR8Ljjee4ZNzE xtGHF1Cey0MNdtV4A3wM2FC4DFkk7uoE4BuWoW9jka6W/5oRw+jsjO8+nuP/XHZx 1zKLS4FdHc7PuUuz/XrFcZ1XfCfbS40OSHNqx7bW4+GbovxdoAPCE4TO2SV8BStW nU7j6rFh2a/YIDE8vArLr+TroyxoQBGtCcaZDTVBBkS11iSTEJK3lq8szqVf8Tne ZCpjgS+Mv03e9l/2C2+wL73IgtlD/L6eqBgwvbw0XN/kBr2a8B3qOsm7QXEEtkw6 Jn8LTUQPSIJlm9SjyaRBuSylEIzevpz3x8IDmLHWa8u1vCIFUYfe43E/0lKIvXRf 5vVmXgnJSlbl4YL25bXBKAJ3KTLoKYPyAukxsGecKBTy609dPwYjS4MXv3/h51Wl fLfBP/EgBmKsUe7+UrPXmrY5W4naIt08hqwTrgVPjL0cnW+5Mh1k21Rb6R4aoo/q m8FD6ZxVMlhYcAGL15RO =DibI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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