Erratic passphrase recognition (gpg (GnuPG/MacGPG2) 2.0.17)
I am new to gpg -- and I am confronted by a weird, erratic behaviour of gpg: sometimes it recognises my passphrase, sometimes (alas, a lot of the time!) it doesn't. Since I can make the passphrase in pinentry visible I know that I am making no typing mistake. Any advice what I should do? Many thanks, Rembrandt PS. It just right now doesn't let me sign this email... -- 松下問童子言師採藥去 只在此山中雲深不知處 ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: MacGPG2 2.0.17
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 02:17:01AM -0500 Also sprach Charly Avital: I have not run the GPGTools installer, I have run the MacGPG2 2.0.17 released a few hours ago by Ben Donnachie... My understanding is the GPGTools installer is a meta-package, which (as of the time I downloaded and installed it) includes the same build of GnuPG 2.0.17. I figured it wouldn't hurt to use the pre-packaged Tools installer to get GPGMail and everything else at the same time, since presumably all the pieces would be versions which would interoperate correctly. And *everything* related to MacGPG2, Thunderbird+Enigmail and GPGMail 1.3.2.RC1 is running just fine... I don't doubt that everything works, in your case. I have had different results on different platforms. On a machine running 10.6.6, which was freshly installed about two weeks ago, most components of GPGTools seemed to work, however, when I tried to generate test keys (either from the CLI, or from the GUI key management app), the process would always stall at the random number phase. On a different machine running 10.6.6 Server, gpg-agent fails to launch (whereas gpg-agent worked fine, from the same GPGTools installer, on the OS X Desktop machine above). I tried on a third machine (also a client/desktop), with similar results to the desktop above. I have no doubt that on certain computers, it works perfectly, given the variability of errors on the different platforms I have tried it on so far. However, since GnuPG from MacPorts seems to work for me consistently, on all the platforms I have tried it on, I'm going to stick with that for now. I'll revisit the GPGTools/MacGPG2 installers again later, when I have more time to chase these bugs. Cheers, Kevin ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
MacGPG2 2.0.17
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Kevin Kammer wrote the following on 1/24/11 8:42 PM: Thanks for the suggestion, but having deactivated everything GnuPG related that was installed by MacPorts, and running the latest GPGTools installer offered from their website, I ended up with far more problems than I solved. So, for the time being I am going to revert to gpg from MacPorts and use Mutt when I need to sign or encrypt something directly from the mail client. Thanks again, Kevin To the best of my knowledge, there was no need to deactivate the MacPorts installation, but it can't hurt to have done so. I have not run the GPGTools installer, I have run the MacGPG2 2.0.17 released a few hours ago by Ben Donnachie: MacGPG2, a build of GnuPG2 for MacOSX with a native pinentry program, has been updated to GnuPG v2.0.17. Download available from https://github.com/downloads/GPGTools/MacGPG2/MacGPG2-2.0.17.6.zip and detached signature at https://github.com/downloads/GPGTools/MacGPG2/MacGPG2-2.0.17.6.zip.asc And *everything* related to MacGPG2, Thunderbird+Enigmail and GPGMail 1.3.2.RC1 is running just fine: - - decrypt/verify - - encrypt - - sign Ditto for test commands in Terminal, such as: ps waux | grep gpg-agent echo test | gpg2 -aser [your user name] | gpg2 Best regards, Charly -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GnuPG for Privacy Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJNPnjpAAoJEM3GMi2FW4PvUS4H/RuSuhv7gQa3s9SGXnBaZySG UWm7ogt29uUn1tD05zYbW3iM/WYcfrqmXqelY4NF4lqGgrlweQjmPXFr1uCjF9VA 3bUnXrG4D3sSlzC211ZJJmthD6wa5OJOm00+9HuGZWKA04V5ziLPon+zpbz7/B1Y wwm0Eh6CEBUlyyHpozPyUqHIKUiZ02yBkKuH4HxKuauBVsi4EZmUjInHwte6siLH esnYc8KvyELImMkiSJ4+ccmp+LIod2lDFKKAgManQ3kMOJTzt0Pc9CCNAyEshCCo 9PaOCJfD+k3Zu754O/0IKm+UZUbCPaDA2wdx3I+z5WDzm31fG+Jvs3BQhOQ3qdI= =wcjU -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
