Angel de Vicente <angel.vicente.garr...@gmail.com> writes: > It is very weird, maybe a bug, because I have set epg-pinentry-mode to > loopback, which is supposed to use the Emacs minibuffer to ask for the > passphrase of private keys. This works perfect for PGP but it throws > an error for SMIME "Signing failed (unknown reason)". [If I set > epg-pinentry-mode to 'nil, then I am asked for the passphrase by > gnome-keyring and all is good (but I need to use the mini-buffer, > since I use this machine mostly remotely].
> I chased the error down to the function "epg-sign-string" in epg.el, > but my ELisp is very rusty and not making much progress in debugging > the issue. I guess at some point epg.el is calling pinentry, but don't > know how to efficiently debug this. revert changes in epg.el and try it: In your emacs conf: (setq epg-pinentry-mode 'loopback) in ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf use-agent pinentry-mode loopback in ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf allow-emacs-pinentry allow-loopback-pinentry
