Re: [Enigmail] revoked key and other questions
Hi list, I'm answering (quite late, sorry) to myself after having a telephone session with olav, many thanx again. Here is what we found: > I have been using enigmail on a windows 7 machine with thunderbird for > half a year now. > > I have two key-pairs, one of length 2048 and one of length 4096. > > About two weeks ago I got error messages telling me that my key (the > longer one) had missing trust, out of nowhere, I did not change anything. > > Then I made updates and klicked everything to >>ultimate<< (though I > didn't have to do that before, it just worked before). > > Now the larger key has status >>validity: revoked<<, but I never revoked > that key by myself. > > This morning, when I opened an encrypted mail sent to me by someone, I > got another enigmail-error-message: > > <\beginquote> > > Decrypted message > > Error - no matching secret key found to decrypt message > > Note: The message is encrypted for the following user ID's / Keys> > > ... (Doris Behrendt) ..., > > ... (the name of the sender of the mail) ... > > <\stopquote> > > Yesterday I openend this message without any error message. After > restarting, the error message doesn't reemerge, it seems. > > So here are my questions: > > 1. Why do I have two keys? (perhaps I don't remember generating 2 keys, > perhaps it is the default to get 2?) this must have happened during installation, I don't remember, but the creation date of the keys is the day of installation; > > 2. Why is my key revoked without me actively revoking it? It seems that > I cannot re-revoke it? why the key was revoked, we could not find out; the date of the revocation however was shown as the day of creation, using on the command line in the directory C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\gnupg and typing gpg --expert --edit-key 0x(last8hexdigitsofkeyid) this obviously makes no sense, since I have used the key for some months without error messages; I was able to re-revoke (or un-revoke) it using gpgsplit as described here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GnuPrivacyGuardHowto#Un-revoking_a_keypair > > 3. What mechanism is telling enigmail, which key to take, if there are > more than one? in the above mentioned directory, there is a config file named gpa.conf, there in my case was an entry for the default key > > 4. What could be the reason for the error message telling me >>no > matching secret key found
Re: [Enigmail] revoked key and other questions
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Thanks Ian. We'r on it. I will do an interactive debugging and Doris will report findings here. Olav - -- The Enigmail Project - OpenPGP Email Security For Mozilla Applications -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQGzBAEBCAAdFiEELI5D2uuyOz5mivRZoZffa2rh71YFAlvAYY4ACgkQoZffa2rh 71aNwwv9F3HGV5VoGMsR+8I2ty+y4eUoUnR29pygHcIiFhc4kY88waNarzh5NsnI dnKxJqrZ+9F91wXBbUyk2P065YHitruqc+xPw+ffdr2/5/LVQv77coU+eZn6T5Pa mCsxwjQCk/95x707iIpS9Ow9di6PzZ6DgL+0r+c+NWrwUWbczVo4i/AERZm0y+ig UmOo2DhuXkwoNpS+w6u1y1RXMBVwXIXN6pvkMv5I/zFKsWJfUGwrUin/rNHN5jPQ Da54tE+tQ/WhKiQ5SL0EEbSE1crNXK1oosxy1QRpNcOFJMxIh5dU3s510Jh/+kTl xaaiy24j66vL4ivKGZfetPyWAOjzcuOQLzqxVwPekQxRh5Ef3drMlbiab7G45B/i CGrYqzTTLTjOex02A9lYj2ldS2nWd9Wak07QmyXn4YW+PXTt0gV+ksPj/eXAOVgB 8VkpGFaGLnORcb2M+BlNON15ffNP6dXyqI/9NAqb52T+yAis49vyBHhvZ7mj+meI keuBMW4M =cVKS -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ enigmail-users mailing list enigmail-users@enigmail.net To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription click here: https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
Re: [Enigmail] revoked key and other questions
What version of Thunderbird are you running? What version of enigmail are you using? On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 at 20:24, Doris Behrendt wrote: > > Hi list, > > first I want to say hello, I am a new subscriber. > > I have been using enigmail on a windows 7 machine with thunderbird for > half a year now. > > I have two key-pairs, one of length 2048 and one of length 4096. > > About two weeks ago I got error messages telling me that my key (the > longer one) had missing trust, out of nowhere, I did not change anything. > > Then I made updates and klicked everything to >>ultimate<< (though I > didn't have to do that before, it just worked before). > > Now the larger key has status >>validity: revoked<<, but I never revoked > that key by myself. > > This morning, when I opened an encrypted mail sent to me by someone, I > got another enigmail-error-message: > > <\beginquote> > > Decrypted message > > Error - no matching secret key found to decrypt message > > Note: The message is encrypted for the following user ID's / Keys> > > ... (Doris Behrendt) ..., > > ... (the name of the sender of the mail) ... > > <\stopquote> > > Yesterday I openend this message without any error message. After > restarting, the error message doesn't reemerge, it seems. > > So here are my questions: > > 1. Why do I have two keys? (perhaps I don't remember generating 2 keys, > perhaps it is the default to get 2?) > > 2. Why is my key revoked without me actively revoking it? It seems that > I cannot re-revoke it? > > 3. What mechanism is telling enigmail, which key to take, if there are > more than one? > > 4. What could be the reason for the error message telling me >>no > matching secret key found< > > Thanks in advance, I must admit, I am a little bit confused ... I'm > going to do another restart, perhaps the reason is only some windows > updates? > > Doris > > > ___ > enigmail-users mailing list > enigmail-users@enigmail.net > To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription click here: > https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net ___ enigmail-users mailing list enigmail-users@enigmail.net To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription click here: https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
[Enigmail] revoked key and other questions
Hi list, first I want to say hello, I am a new subscriber. I have been using enigmail on a windows 7 machine with thunderbird for half a year now. I have two key-pairs, one of length 2048 and one of length 4096. About two weeks ago I got error messages telling me that my key (the longer one) had missing trust, out of nowhere, I did not change anything. Then I made updates and klicked everything to >>ultimate<< (though I didn't have to do that before, it just worked before). Now the larger key has status >>validity: revoked<<, but I never revoked that key by myself. This morning, when I opened an encrypted mail sent to me by someone, I got another enigmail-error-message: <\beginquote> Decrypted message Error - no matching secret key found to decrypt message Note: The message is encrypted for the following user ID's / Keys> ... (Doris Behrendt) ..., ... (the name of the sender of the mail) ... <\stopquote> Yesterday I openend this message without any error message. After restarting, the error message doesn't reemerge, it seems. So here are my questions: 1. Why do I have two keys? (perhaps I don't remember generating 2 keys, perhaps it is the default to get 2?) 2. Why is my key revoked without me actively revoking it? It seems that I cannot re-revoke it? 3. What mechanism is telling enigmail, which key to take, if there are more than one? 4. What could be the reason for the error message telling me >>no matching secret key found
