[Bug 1308335] Re: gnupg never asks for passphrase – bails out with "bad passphrase" immediately

[Seth Arnold]

Your testing here is not indicative of a problem; these are expected
outputs for these inputs. Sending input directly into gpg without any
arguments is to decrypt or validate signed content. You would need to
use command line arguments to tell gpg to encrypt or sign or ascii-armor
your input.

However, if you're finding that gpg doesn't work via programs that used
to work, check your ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg file -- it may be zero bytes.
See if you have a backup in ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg~ that you can use
instead. I understand gpg does not handle being interrupted very well.

Thanks

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Title:
  gnupg never asks for passphrase – bails out with "bad passphrase"
  immediately

Status in “gnupg” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  ⟫ gpg
  gpg: Auf geht's - Botschaft eintippen ...
  lorem ipsun

  gpg: Keine gültigen OpenPGP-Daten gefunden.
  gpg: processing message failed: eof
  ⟫ echo "lorem ipsun" | gpg
  gpg: Keine gültigen OpenPGP-Daten gefunden.
  gpg: processing message failed: eof

  gpg fails with thunderbird, mutt, reprepro, and various others

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: gnupg 1.4.16-1ubuntu2
  Uname: Linux 3.13.10+ x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl zcommon znvpair
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: XFCE
  Date: Wed Apr 16 07:23:18 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-10-19 (909 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
  SourcePackage: gnupg
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-02-24 (50 days ago)

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