On 08.09.16 16:31, Tom Ritter wrote:
> On 7 September 2016 at 18:07, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]> 
> 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.


-Patrick

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