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pinentry encodes the "%"-character
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Someone on Gentoo's bugtracker describes a problem with pinentry encoding
"%"-character to "%25". I can reproduce this with pinentry 0.7.5 on my system.
Funny if you use a passphrase like "have%fun!" ;-)

see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274641

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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274641
Version
0.7.5

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osi2897 set External Link to http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274641.Jun 18 2009, 10:55 PM
osi2897 added projects: Restricted Project, pinentry, Bug Report, Gentoo.
osi2897 set Version to 0.7.5.
osi2897 added a subscriber: osi2897.
• werner closed this task as Invalid.Jun 19 2009, 1:04 PM
• werner added a subscriber: • werner.

That is no bug but required by the Assuan protocol:

@item D <raw data>
Raw data returned to client. There must be exactly one space after the
'D'. The values for '%', CR and LF must be percent escaped; this is
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• werner removed projects: Bug Report, Restricted Project.Jun 19 2009, 1:04 PM