On 18.10.17 01:07, Annika Schäfer wrote: > Hi, > > when I wanted to sign an email today I realised, that Enigmail does not > accept my passphrase anymore. Trying to decrypt some old emails had the > same result. It simply shows a message stating that the provided > passphrase is invalid. I checked my sent emails and found a two days old > email with a correct signature from me. My PGP-keypair is three years > old now and I never changed the passphrase. Therefore, I either somehow > managed to make the same mistake when typing the passphrase for the last > three years or the passphrase I enter is correct. > Currently I'm on Windows 8.1 with Enigmail version 1.9.8.3 and > Thunderbird 52.4.0. > I also have another laptop running debian that my PGP-keypair is saved > on. This laptop has not been used for months now, but when I tried to > decrypt some old email on this one I also got the message that my > passphrase is incorrect. I even turned off the Wifi on this laptop prior > to opening IceDove, to prevent it from downloading anything. > Also, I tried to uninstall Enigmail on the Windows laptop and then > reinstall it, but this didn't change anything, turning the laptop off > and on again either. > I found someone on the Internet with a similar problem who was able to > change his passphrase using gnome-keyring, but after installing a GUI > that was able to access gnome-keyring, it also didn't accept my passphrase. > > Is there anything I could do to get my keypair working again? And if > not, any suggestions what caused this problem, so that I can avoid it in > the future? > > Find the logentry of my last attempt to decrypt an old email attached. > Please excuse the german error messages within the log, I'm running > Enigmail in german. But this should only concern the displayed messages, > as far as I can see the internal messages are in english and cover every > error.
Well, the log is very clear: The passphrase passed to GnuPG is wrong. Do you have special characters in your passphrase (umlauts, accented characters, etc.)? Did you switch the language of your keyboard? Ludwig
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