[gentoo-user] Kmail Crypto error

[gentoo-user] Kmail Crypto error

[Mick]

Two machines almost identically configured.  The second will not show
encrypted messages in a readable format after they have been sent.
The Kmail error is:

Encrypted message (decryption not possible)
Reason: Crypto plug-in "openpgp" could not decrypt the data.
Error: Bad passphrase
                   Encrypted data not shown.
End of encrypted message

I have ticked encrypt to self, so I was expecting that the senders
passphrase would be asked and the message would become readable in the
Sent Folder.

Any ideas?
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Regards,
Mick
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Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail Crypto error

[Michal 'vorner' Vaner]

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Hello,

On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 12:38:08PM +0000, Mick wrote:
> I have ticked encrypt to self, so I was expecting that the senders
> passphrase would be asked and the message would become readable in the
> Sent Folder.

KMail is no longer (it is some time already) able to ask for the
passphrase itself, you need gpg-agent properly configured and running.
Other applications using pgp are moving in this direction too (there are
some safety issues with every application asking for the passphrase by
itself).

You probably can find more here
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gnupg-user.xml.

Have a nice day

-- 
You can fool some of the people all of the time,
and all of the people some of the time,
but you can make a fool of yourself anytime.

Michal "vorner" Vaner

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Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail Crypto error

[Mick]

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On Saturday 10 March 2007 13:11, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote:

> KMail is no longer (it is some time already) able to ask for the
> passphrase itself, you need gpg-agent properly configured and running.
> Other applications using pgp are moving in this direction too (there are
> some safety issues with every application asking for the passphrase by
> itself).
>
> You probably can find more here
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gnupg-user.xml.

Of course, I forgot that I hadn't configured the machine in question to launch 
gpg-agent when kdm starts up (this box is running KDE, the other is not).  It 
works fine now.

Thank you!  :)
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Regards,
Mick

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