#1234 ✓cantreproduce
Andreas Jung

ERROR get_passphrase 85 after reinstalling MacPGP

Reported by Andreas Jung | August 17th, 2015 @ 12:51 AM

After reinstalling MacGPG (gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.19) I receive the following error while signing/encrypting outgoing emails:

USERID_HINT 00DC7F3EEEE00663 .......
NEED_PASSPHRASE 00DC7F3EEEE00663 00DC7F3EEEE00663 1 0
ERROR get_passphrase 85
MISSING_PASSPHRASE
INV_SGNR 0 xx@xx.com

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  • Andreas Jung

    Andreas Jung August 17th, 2015 @ 01:10 AM

    Mailmate Version is

    1.9.2 (5107)

  • benny

    benny August 17th, 2015 @ 08:37 AM

    It looks like showing the password requester fails (it's handled by gpg2 and not by MailMate itself). Where did you get the version number? I get this:

    > /usr/local/MacGPG2/bin/gpg2 --version
    gpg (GnuPG/MacGPG2) 2.0.28
    libgcrypt 1.6.3
    ...
    

    (I believe this is the latest release.)

  • Andreas Jung

    Andreas Jung August 17th, 2015 @ 11:47 AM

    /usr/local/MacGPG2/bin/gpg2 --version gpg (GnuPG/MacGPG2) 2.0.28
    libgcrypt 1.6.3
    Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
    This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
    There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

    Home: ~/.gnupg
    Supported algorithms:
    Pubkey: RSA, RSA, RSA, ELG, DSA
    Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH,
    CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256 Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
    Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2

  • benny

    benny August 17th, 2015 @ 12:34 PM

    • State changed from “new” to “cantreproduce”

    Ok, so we are on the same version and I've verified that the password requester works for me.

    It'll probably be easier to debug if it can be reproduced from the command line. MailMate has a debug mode (MmDebugSecurity) in which all gpg2 commands are dumped, but it's a bit verbose. Essentially, this is what happens when signing:

    echo "test" | gpg2 --no-verbose --batch --no-tty --openpgp --status-fd 2 --digest-algo SHA1 --textmode --armor --local-user "<foobar@example.com>" --detach-sign
    

    This triggers the password requester for me. Could you try the same with your email address and see if you get the password requester?

    (Make sure gpg2 --version is also the MacGPG2 version of gpg2.)

  • Andreas Jung

    Andreas Jung August 17th, 2015 @ 02:22 PM

    Problem resolved after a reboot.
    I also noticed that the MacOSX security settings on my Mac have changed because I could no longer start Mailmate because of Gatekeepter settings.

  • benny

    benny August 19th, 2015 @ 12:38 PM

    Glad it was resolved for now although I'm always a bit wary about problems resolved by rebooting.

    (Hmm, Gatekeeper would usually not be triggered except if redownloading MailMate.)

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