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agent doesn't accept short passphrases even if confirmed
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Tested with gnupg 2.0.4.

Import a pkcs12 file with gpgsm in a terminal using pinentry-curses. You're
first asked for the passphrase of the pkcs12 file. OK. Then you're asked for a
new passphrase. If you enter a short passphrase (< 8 characters by default),
you get a warning dialog. If you choos "Take this one anyway", you're asked for
the passphrase again and warned again! There is no way to get it to accept the
short passphrase.

If you use e.g. pinentry-qt intead of pinentry-curses, the agent accepts the
short passphrase after the warning as expected.

Details

Due Date
Dec 31 2008, 1:00 AM
Version
2.0.4

Event Timeline

bherzog added projects: gnupg, Bug Report.Jul 11 2007, 3:30 PM
bherzog set Version to 2.0.4.
bherzog added a subscriber: bernhard.
bherzog added a subscriber: bherzog.
• werner added a subscriber: • werner.Nov 15 2007, 4:13 PM

Someone needs to debug it ;-) Use a wrapper for pinentry.

• werner added projects: gpgagent, pinentry.Nov 15 2007, 4:13 PM
• werner added a comment.Dec 5 2008, 6:37 PM

Is this still an an issue (2.0.4 is pretty old)?

• werner set Due Date to Dec 31 2008, 1:00 AM.Dec 9 2008, 11:56 AM
• werner closed this task as Resolved.Mar 2 2009, 10:43 AM
• werner claimed this task.
• werner added a project: Info Needed.

No response, assuming it has been fixed.

bherzog added a comment.Mar 3 2009, 3:33 PM

Tested with gpgsm 2.0.10-svn4835 and pinentry-curses 0.7.4. Works fine now. I
did have to explicitly set GPG_TTY, though, to make pinentry-curses work, but
that's unrelated to this issue.

bherzog reopened this task as Open.Mar 3 2009, 3:33 PM
bherzog closed this task as Resolved.