[5761] in SIPB bug reports
Exmh PGP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Victor Chudnovsky)
Wed Jan 31 16:20:46 1996
To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 16:20:23 EST
From: Victor Chudnovsky <vchudnov@MIT.EDU>
Hi. I'm having a problem with exmh and the olc's suggested I ask here.
When I send myself a test message, sign it and encrypt it with
PGP, I get to the point where PGP asks for and accepts my secret pass
phrase. However, it seems that exmh tells PGP the recipient's key id
rather than username. My problem is that I have recently generated a new
key pair, but it seems like exmh is still specifying my old key id. How
do I tell exmh to either specify my username, or to use my current key
id? By the way, when I choose encrypt and sign, the mail header
specifies the PGP recipient via username, not key id, so I am confused.
I've tried looking at some of the .exmh* files in ~ and ~/Mail, but
couldn't find any obvious configuration options for PGP.
This what I see:
When I send mail to myself, the PGP interface comes up. I'm asked
for my pass phrase; I enter my (current) pass phrase; and I get a reply
saying that the pass phrase is good. Presumably, then, the message is
signed at that point with my private key. Then pgp tells me it can't
find the public key whose id is 0x#####, and it prompts me for the name
of another keyring file where it could find the key with that particular
id. But of course no such file exists now, so the encryption fails.
In other words, I see exactly what you'd see if you typed:
athena% pgp -seat file noone
where file is an existing file but noone is a non-existent recipient.
The olc made the following remark:
*** Reply from consultant banerji@MOMONEY.MIT.EDU [1].
[Wed 31-Jan-96 3:44pm]
Well, I saw this bug a few months ago, and sent mail to the author. The
author sent me a patch. I forwarded the patch to the sipb maintainers of
exmh at MIT. I don't know if they incorporated it into this build or not
(although I should hope it is - considering the date on it is 12/11/95).
I would recommend that you contact the author yourself, or get in touch
with the sipb maintainers.
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Any assistance would be appreciated.
Victor
