On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 11:58:25AM -0400, Chris Brennan wrote:
> Tim Guirgies: I actually saw your mail in webmail first and copy/pasted
> it to test.asc on my local server (where mutt/gpg live) and decrypted it
> manually. Since I already had your key from a previous fetch, all I had to
> do was put my password in when prompted and I was able to read the content
> on the console. Incidentally could it be that gpg is using an ncurses
> dialog prompt for my password and not taking input directly from stdin?
> 
> When I am in mutt, I am asked to input my password, which I do like a 
> good monkey but mutt/gpg says no, bad password. This is what tipped me
> off to the ncurses dialog box vs a prompt from the console.

That is a possibility.  You'd have to troll through the mutt source to
confirm, though, I think.  You'd have to have some idea of where to
start looking, but I can't help you there.

To confirm, you could create a new key (don't publish it) with an
obviously fake identity and an alphanumeric phrase, and test with that.
You can then remove it.


Tim

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