Bug#853935: rephrase: No more works with gpg2 and causes one pinentry popup per guess
Axel Beckert
abe at debian.org
Fri Feb 3 19:46:43 UTC 2017
Control: tags -1 + patch
Hi,
Axel Beckert wrote:
> > the 2.1.x version of GnuPG (which is what will offer /usr/bin/gpg in
> > debian stretch) stores its secret key material in a different way
> > (~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d) than gpg1 does (~/.gnupg/secring.gpg). If
> > you want rephrase to recover a partially-known passphrase against gpg
> > 2.1.x, having one that "works" against gpg1 isn't going to be useful at
> > all.
[...]
> > A better short-term fix would be to add "--pinentry-mode", "loopback" to
> > the arguments passed to the gpg invocations in rephrase.c.
>
> I'll try to come up with a patch for that.
The attached patch works for me with gpg aka gpg2.
I'd also upload it as NMU in case I don't hear from the Debian
Forensics team in time before a potential removal from testing (or if
the team prefers the NMU).
Regards, Axel
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