[pkg-horde] Bug#410460: imp4: refuses pgp passphrases of lengths over 15 characters

Phil Reynolds phil at tinsleyviaduct.com
Sat Feb 10 22:04:32 CET 2007


On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 09:36:53PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 08:03:13PM +0000, Phil Reynolds wrote:
> 
> > If you try to use PGP in imp4, you are prompted for your passphrase
> > on first use. I have a 17-character passphrase, but this is rejected
> > as invalid. It would appear that the length is more than imp4 can
> > cope with at present, or alternatively, it is rejecting certain
> > characters present in my passphrase.
> 
> Maybe the locale in which you set the passphrase is not the same as
> the one used by IMP (e.g. one is UTF-8 and the other is ISO 8859) and
> your passphrase contains non-ASCII characters (such as é, è, û, ...)?

All the characters are ASCII. The locales are ISO-8859 - ISO8859-1 and 
ISO8859-15 are what I have used, and all the characters are in both.

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