-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hiya, Annika.
When you forget your passphrase, you're effectively locked out of your key pair. This behaviour is by design - if there were some 'back door' method of getting into your keypair, then the passphrase mechanism would be worthless; anyone with knowledge of the back door method could gain access. My condolences for your loss - generating a new keypair and getting it out to your correspondents can be a huge pain in the ass. On 10/17/2017 04:07 PM, 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. > > Kind regards, Annika > > > > _______________________________________________ enigmail-users > mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or make > changes to your subscription click here: > https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.ne t > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEAREDAAYFAlnnoqcACgkQyLm4ydrABvcsBACgyv1YD9+eXgVH3iyjsLUUjmOR J50An0DXtnQpHrpSm8X/renEhciy9BWQ =nclo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ enigmail-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription click here: https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
