PGP / engimail no longer working in Saucy

Nio Wiklund nio.wiklund at gmail.com
Fri Jun 21 10:42:25 UTC 2013


On 2013-06-21 12:31, Lars Noodén wrote:
> Today I'm running into trouble when trying to decrypt or sign messages
> with PGP.  Previously engimail worked fine for Thunderbird.  Today it
> gives only error messages.  When I try to decrypt a message, I get
> something like this:
> 
>  OpenPGP Security Info
> 
>  Error - signature verification failed
> 
>  gpg command line and output:
>  gpg
>  gpg: problem with the agent - disabling agent use
>  gpg: can't query passphrase in batch mode
>  gpg: Invalid passphrase; please try again ...
>  gpg: can't query passphrase in batch mode
>  gpg: Invalid passphrase; please try again ...
>  gpg: can't query passphrase in batch mode
>  gpg: encrypted with 1024-bit ELG-E key, ID XXXXXXXX, created 2004-01-09
>        "xxxx <xx at xxxxx.com>"
>  gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit ELG-E key, ID XXXXXXXX, created 2008-03-04
>      "xxxxx <xxxx at xxxx.com>"
>  gpg: public key decryption failed: bad passphrase
>  gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available
> 
> Is anyone else seeing this or having ideas on how to fix it?
> 
> Regards,
> /Lars
> 
I have it only in Precise.

Does gpg work properly as a command line tool (if you make a file of the
email source and descrypt or check signature)?

Best regards/Nio



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