[Kmymoney-devel] Re: Decryption not requesting passphrase

[Thomas Baumgart]

Hi,

on Tuesday 05 April 2011 10:09:54 John Le Page wrote:

> Hello
> 
> Your hunch was right. Thank you for your help.
> 
>  'gpg -d myfile.kmy' does indeed send the file to the display unencrypted
> without requesting the p/w. 'cat myfile.kmy' shows the ascii armoured
> file, so the encryption is there. Extracting possibly relevant files from
> my list of installed files, this is what I found and includes a reference
> to an agent
> 
> gpgsm						install
> gpgv						install
> libgpg-error0					install
> libgpgme++2					install
> libgpgme11					install
> libqgpgme1					install
> gnupg						install
> gnupg-agent					install
> gnupg-curl					install
> gnupg2						install
> python-gnupginterface				install
> seahorse                                        install
> seahorse-plugins                                install
> 
> Your further suggestions on where to look within the above or elsewhere
> would be appreciated.

With a running gpg-agent and the passphrase entered once, I can force the 
passphrase dialog with the following command:

  GPG_AGENT_INFO= gpg -d myfile.kmy

Does it ask for a passphrase now? 

This is more a GPG question and we're somewhat the wrong community here. 
Unless there is a GPG expert lurking here on the list :)



> On 04/04/2011 21:26, Thomas Baumgart wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > on Monday 04 April 2011 18:16:31 John Le Page wrote:
> >> A great program which I started using about six months ago after Money
> >> 2001 gave me very weird reports with incorrect totals!
> >> 
> >> As I was familiar with PGP, I soon went to using the encryption option,
> >> which has been working fine until today.
> >> 
> >> On startup this morning I found it did not want to open my file and that
> >> my Seahorse 2.32  was empty.  I had key backups which I restored into
> >> Seahorse and then the encrypted file opened ok but without first
> >> requesting my passphrase.   The problem is now that while the KMyMoney
> >> file is being stored with the right ascii armoured format under
> >> 
> >> -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
> >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux)    etc
> >> 
> >> but KMyMoney no longer asks me for the passphrase before opening the
> >> file - it always just opens as soon as requested.
> > 
> > KMyMoney uses GPG for the encryption. It does not store the passphrase at
> > all, so I have no idea why that is. Do you have a gpg-agent running?
> > 
> >> I have tried switching off the encryption, saving the file again,
> >> closing & opening the file and re-saving it encrypted but still the
> >> file next reopens without the passphrase being requested!
> > 
> > What happens if you run 'gpg -d yourfile.kmy' ?  Does it decrypt to the
> > console w/o entereing a passphrase?
> > 
> >> Any suggestions?  My OS is Ubuntu 10.10  and KMyMoney 4.5.3.1 from the
> >> Clay Weber package.
> > 
> > I don't expect KMyMoney being part of the problem. Are you sure you open
> > the right file? Just to be sure.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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