PGP / engimail no longer working in Saucy

Leszek Lesner leszek.lesner at web.de
Sun Jun 23 09:19:20 UTC 2013


Am Sonntag, 23. Juni 2013, 12:11:50 schrieb Lars Noodén:
> On 06/21/2013 01:42 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Does anyone have Saucy running that can reproduce the same problem?
> I've gone through several updates and even re-installed the system from
> DVD and the problem still persists.
> 

Please double check your password and make sure the private key is available



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