This is better name. My point was that if we ever use that to create such a field the developer should not assume that arbitrary REs can be used here. We need to have some practical value here and I would prefer to see only the domain name. However, OpenPGP allows for arbitrary REs and thus we may see them here. This is problematic but we can't do much about it.

Well, all I can say is that
./run-genkey --loopback "elektra testkey (gen-gpg-testkey)"
creates a key without any problems and without asking for a passphrase. Even, if I add the GPGME_CREATE_NOEXPIRE flag to the call of gpgme_op_createkey. At least, from a terminal.

Thank you for your response! I tried out all variants of gpgme_pinentry_mode_t and implemented a passphrase callback (using gpgme_set_passphrase_cb as suggested). It turns out that the callback is not invoked at all. However, if I switch back to gnupg 2.2.27, the callback is being invoked and the key is being generated (using the passphrase specified by the callback, as expected).

The problem might be that gpg tries to ask for a passphrase which fails on the CI. Try setting a passphrase callback and setting the pinentry mode to loopback. See https://dev.gnupg.org/source/gpgme/browse/master/tests/run-genkey.c$435.

Added documentation for the new fields.

• Renamed trust_regexp to trust_scope.
• Use part of _unused for storing trust_depth and trust_value.

In T5250#143872, @kaie wrote:

It seems gpgme-json is intended to execute in the Web JavaScript sandbox of a browser.

I said "we're offering the optional use of GPGME

At the time I started to add an optional binding from Thunderbird to GPGME, I wasn't aware of gpgme-json.

In T5250#141705, @werner wrote:

Sure that TB uses GPGME - they claimed they won't use it due to license incompatibility (LGPL). I assumed they use gpgme-json via naticve messaging.

There is still useful software working only with 2.7. So it is not the time to drop this.

A public keyblock without a user id packet is non-compliant. I see no reason to provide a feature to created crippled data. We had all this discussions back in the early 90s regarding to self-signatures. OpenPGP spoke a final word on this in 1998 by making user ids and corresponding self-signatures mandatory.

Not exactly the answer I was hoping for..

Oops, that was an experimental feature never intended for a released version. Will be removed in a way that it does not leas to compile problems - just to be extra cautiousness.

We have this.

In fact, Thunderbird does not use gpgme-json, but loads the gpgme shared library at runtime. The interesting thing is that Thunderbird works fine if gpgOSX is used.

Reading the bugzilla report it seems that TB is loading gpgme at runtime. In particular the hints on using externally build stuff (Homebrew) is worrying. Someone(tm) needs to check how gpgme is used by TB and that it is properly initialized. GPGME is actually not designed to be loaded at runtime but should be used as standard shared object or static library.

Thanks for the reply. Not sure about GPGME/gpgme-json. Anyway, it still ends up in gpgme code, isn't it?
I used to modify gpgme sources to receive more information about the issue.
Looks like the next step would be to modify gpg-conf and see what's going on there, or leave it to the Thunderbird developers.

Sure that TB uses GPGME - they claimed they won't use it due to license incompatibility (LGPL). I assumed they use gpgme-json via naticve messaging. Regarding the error - I have no idea.

Long since resolved

Taking since I ran into this problem while working on T5174. In Kleopatra, if one opens the certificate details of one's own keys (i.e. secret key is available), then the tags vanish from the key list.

The C++, CL, Javascript and QT Bindings are all written by hand.

Hi Werner,

can you elaborate?

Given all the resources we had put on this Python bindings I'd suggest to bite the bullet and replace Swig by handcrafted bindings. More work but we do it for the other bindings as well.

You're right. Thank you.

Thanks. Fixed in rM7a4fe82a017b: python: Fix key_export*..

For ctx->exportPublicKeys returning 0 even when a failure, (with fix of gpg) error handling should be done differently.

Well, I fixed my loopback passphrase provider and the application no longer crashes with a bad passphrase.

relatively new feature

Yes. In the mean time, I'm using a cheap workaround : validate the input passphrase by signing a dummy text before exporting. Not that ugly and can stay for long.

More specifically, in the situation of multiple calls, ->getPassphrase is called multiple times, and it should return newly allocated "char *" object each time, because it is released each time (in lower layer).

My excuse: Please note that the support of exporting secret keys by GPGME are relatively new feature (see {T5046) and the fix rM3382ecb17eb5: core: Support exporting secret keys.). The fix of rM53ac732bae46: core: Call _gpgme_passphrase_status_handler when exporting keys. is a part of the support.
I think that we need more fixes for gpg/gpgme to be fully working well.

In T5151#139410, @gniibe wrote:

when passphrase is wrong, the passphrase callback is called more than one time (one for primary key, and another for a subkey, more if there are more subkeys).

Currently, gpg doesn't report any errors to status line for exporting secret keys. If needed, a patch like this is needed:

Chasing this bug, I pushed a change: rM53ac732bae46: core: Call _gpgme_passphrase_status_handler when exporting keys.

In T5151#139353, @nmset wrote:

Using Context::setExpire(), expiry time of keys and subkeys can be changed in a predictable way, with good and bad passphrase (fails with error of course).

In T5151#139330, @ikloecker wrote:

I highly recommend to use the new ChangeExpiryJob instead of the fragile (and apparently buggy) edit interactor.

In T5151#139332, @ikloecker wrote:

Can you try if using the overload

Can you try if using the overload

Error Context::exportPublicKeys(const char *patterns[], Data &keyData, unsigned int flags)

which takes an array of patterns instead of a single pattern also crashes?

Unless you need some special features of GpgSetExpiryTimeEditInteractor or you have to support gpgme <1.15, I highly recommend to use the new ChangeExpiryJob instead of the fragile (and apparently buggy) edit interactor.

Fixed. Workaround for gpgme 1.15 (and earlier) implemented in Kleopatra: Do not call setRemark() with an empty QString.

I think Kleopatra is affected. It calls setRemark() on the job unconditionally with the text from the widget, and I'm pretty sure that this text is empty but not a null QString, if the user doesn't enter a remark.

Ingo, can you please check? I guess we are not affected because Kleo already checks for an empty string. But dkg's suggestion sounds good to me.

Thanks for your report, but your excerpt is irrelevant.

Push the change.

Thank you.

Pushed the change.

IIUC, fix can be like this:

diff --git a/lang/python/src/core.py b/lang/python/src/core.py
index 996c3b0f..646bbc60 100644
--- a/lang/python/src/core.py
+++ b/lang/python/src/core.py
@@ -147,7 +147,12 @@ class GpgmeWrapper(object):
                     gpgme.gpg_raise_callback_exception(slf)
                 return result

Good catch. Thank you.

The following patch make it work:

FWIW, here an example of warnings we use. Yes it starts with -Wall but there are a couple of more specific warnings and at a few places we even use pragmas to disable warnings. And it depends on the compiler version used.

-Wall is not a good idea in general because it is too unspecific. This is why we have a list of useful warning and >warnings we ignore with gcc.

-Wall is not a good idea in general because it is too unspecific. This is why we have a list of useful warning and warnings we ignore with gcc.

I found the bug by compiling the package with C/C++ compiler clang and flag -Wall.