gnupg annoyances

Zane C.B. v.velox at vvelox.net
Tue Jan 8 03:14:19 PST 2008


Any one know what it takes to get security/gnupg to work? I have
pinentry-gtk2, but having that installed does not help. Any
suggestions?



> cat randomfile | gpg2 -s

You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: "Zane C. Bowers <vvelox at vvelox.net>"
1024-bit DSA key, ID C18989DE, created 2006-06-16

Warning: using insecure memory!

** ERROR **: could not grab keyboard
aborting...
gpg-agent[96284]: command get_passphrase failed: End of file
gpg: problem with the agent: IPC write error
gpg: Invalid passphrase; please try again ...

You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: "Zane C. Bowers <vvelox at vvelox.net>"
1024-bit DSA key, ID C18989DE, created 2006-06-16

gpg: problem with the agent: IPC write error
gpg: no default secret key: General error
gpg: signing failed: General error
Exit 2


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