Bug#795639: assword fails with "Decryption error: Decryption failed"

These two commands have fixed gpg 2.1.8 for me, on sid. Prior to the fix, I had: gpg: decryption failed: No secret key On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 10:16:03 -0700 Russ Allbery wrote: > Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes: > > > Aha. Okay, I seem to have fixed it, although I still don't really > understand

Bug#795639: assword fails with "Decryption error: Decryption failed"

Might this be a symptom of bug #772897 ?

Bug#795639: assword fails with "Decryption error: Decryption failed"

Just one more data point: I just upgraded another system using assword, with a separate private key that was generated on 2014-08-20, and everything worked fine with it. And I don't get the legacy keys errors on that system either. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Bug#795639: assword fails with "Decryption error: Decryption failed"

Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes: > interesting. what is the history of this secret key material? Was it > generated fresh on 2009-05-29? or was it converted from some other > (older) key source? It was generated fresh on 2009-05-29 using gpg at the time. >> Aha. Okay, I seem to have fixed it, al

Bug#795639: assword fails with "Decryption error: Decryption failed"

Control: retitle 795639 automated secret key import process for gpg2.1 skips some keys On Sun 2015-08-16 19:16:03 +0200, Russ Allbery wrote: > Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes: >> do you see >> ~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d/FD1DA474D3DF3C728C54F9E479EDFC5BBE2E14EA.key >> ? > > No, that file doesn't exist

Bug#795639: assword fails with "Decryption error: Decryption failed"

Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes: > ok, so the keygrip for 0x7CE29A76E9769486 is > FD1DA474D3DF3C728C54F9E479EDFC5BBE2E14EA > (via "gpg2 --with-keygrip --list-keys 7CE29A76E9769486") > do you see > ~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d/FD1DA474D3DF3C728C54F9E479EDFC5BBE2E14EA.key > ? No, that file doesn't exi

Bug#795639: assword fails with "Decryption error: Decryption failed"

On Sun 2015-08-16 02:55:43 +0200, Russ Allbery wrote: > Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes: > >> does this succeed with gpg2 --decrypt as well, or just gpg --decrypt? > > Aha. Here's a problem: > > mithrandir:~/private/db$ gpg2 --decrypt personal > gpg: error reading keyblock: Legacy key > gpg: keydb_get

Bug#795639: assword fails with "Decryption error: Decryption failed"

Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes: > does this succeed with gpg2 --decrypt as well, or just gpg --decrypt? Aha. Here's a problem: mithrandir:~/private/db$ gpg2 --decrypt personal gpg: error reading keyblock: Legacy key gpg: keydb_get_keyblock failed: Legacy key gpg: encrypted with RSA key, ID 7CE29A7

Bug#795639: assword fails with "Decryption error: Decryption failed"

Control: tags 795639 + moreinfo Control: reassign 795639 gnupg2 2.1.7-2 Control: affects 795639 assword Hi Russ-- On Sun 2015-08-16 01:03:16 +0200, Russ Allbery wrote: > strace seems to back that up. It chats with the agent for a bit, and > then it fails. See the partial trace below. It seems

Bug#795639: assword fails with "Decryption error: Decryption failed"

Jameson Graef Rollins writes: > Thanks for the report, Russ, and sorry about the trouble. > I'm actually unable to reproduce this bug by just installing gnupg2 from > unstable (2.1.7-2). However, my /usr/bin/gpg is from the gnupg package, > not gnupg2. I'm guessing that maybe you're using gnup

Bug#795639: assword fails with "Decryption error: Decryption failed"

tags 795639 + unreproducible moreinfo On Sat, Aug 15 2015, Russ Allbery wrote: > Package: assword > Version: 0.8-2 > Severity: grave > > assword can no longer decrypt any of my password stores. It fails with > the error: > > mithrandir:~$ assword dump foo > Assword database error: Decryption err

Bug#795639: assword fails with "Decryption error: Decryption failed"

Package: assword Version: 0.8-2 Severity: grave assword can no longer decrypt any of my password stores. It fails with the error: mithrandir:~$ assword dump foo Assword database error: Decryption error: Decryption failed The data store is not corrupt; running GnuPG on it manually works fine. Th