On 1/4/2019 8:45 AM, David H. Durgee wrote: > Back in October, 2018 I set up Enigmail on SeaMonkey 2.49.4 here. Today > I received my first encrypted email and found that I have forgotten my > pass phrase. I am still able to send encrypted and signed emails, but I > cannot read the encrypted replies. > > My recollection from when I installed the plug-in and first started > signing emails is that I had to enter the pass phrase and it was saved > at that point in Password Manager. As the pass phrase is needed to > access the private key required for the signing I am almost certain of this. > > Looking in Password Manager I am having no luck locating this entry. Is > the Enigmail plug-in storing it somewhere else? Any pointers from > anyone else on this? > > My only alternatives are to recall my pass phrase or revoke my current > key and generate a new pair. > > Dave >
I believe the passphrase for signing should be the same as for decrypting. Thus, if you can still sign, you should be able to decrypt. At least, that is the way PGP works. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> President Trump still insists that Mexico will eventually pay for his border wall. If he really believes that, why does he not pay for it out of his personal billions of dollars and then personally collect from Mexico? _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
