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Bug 678771 - GPG agent cannot unlock keys with % in passphrase
GPG agent cannot unlock keys with % in passphrase
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-keyring
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.4.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: GNOME keyring maintainer(s)
GNOME keyring maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-06-25 09:20 UTC by Jan de Groot
Modified: 2012-06-28 13:54 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Attachments
gpg-agent: Encode passwords when --data was requested (2.45 KB, patch)
2012-06-28 13:52 UTC, Stef Walter 		committed Details | Review

Description Jan de Groot 2012-06-25 09:20:09 UTC 
Since the upgrade to GNOME 3.4, I can no longer unlock my GPG keys using gnome-keyring as agent. Older versions that didn't integrate the password prompt into gnome-shell worked correctly.

gpg will just say "invalid passphrase" after entering my correct passphrase with % sign in it. Using strace, I found out that the %-sign is not encoded at all when sent from gnome-keyring-daemon to GPG. The default password box that shows up when I unset GPG_AGENT_INFO encodes this character and unlocks my key correctly.
Comment 1 Stef Walter 2012-06-28 13:52:57 UTC 
Created attachment 217522 [details] [review]
gpg-agent: Encode passwords when --data was requested

* Use URI encoding to return passwords when gnupg calls us with
   a --data argument.
Comment 2 Stef Walter 2012-06-28 13:54:00 UTC 
Comment on attachment 217522 [details] [review]
gpg-agent: Encode passwords when --data was requested

Thanks for catching that. Here's the patch I committed to gnome-keyring to fix it.

There's two ways to request passwords. I guess you must have upgraded to gnupg 2.x or some gnupg version that requests passwords in the less tested way.