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25.1.50; epa-list-secret-keys does not find gpg private keys

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From: Iñigo Serna <inigoserna <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 25.1.50; epa-list-secret-keys does not find gpg private keys
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:58:58 +0100

Since a couple of months ago emacs 25.0.x (last tested as 2016/03/08
from git master) can't open encrypted files (using symmetric keys), as
epa can't find secret keys from gpg.

This is the error message I get:
"""
Error while decrypting with "gpg":

gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit RSA key, ID C0ED9C8489B28C43, created 2016-01-12
      "Iñigo Serna (XXX.YY) <inigo <at> XXX.YY>"
gpg: decryption failed: No secret key
"""

I use gpg (not gpg2) so I added '(setq epg-gpg-program "gpg")' to my
configuration as new epa defaults to gpg2 when I've run "emacs -Q -nw".

`epa-list-secret-keys` does not find any keys.

This same configuration works ok with 24.5.1 (from Fedora 23 x86_64), and
even `epa-list-secret-keys` shows the private keys correctly.

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In GNU Emacs 25.1.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.18.7)
 of 2016-03-08 built on inigo.katxi.org
Repository revision: 80864c2a04597d31ba453c9af69d35b15c4e1e24
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Recent messages:
"gpg"
Decrypting /home/inigo/personal/agenda/other.org.gpg...done
epa-file--find-file-not-found-function: Opening input file: Decryption failed, No secret key: C0ED9C8489B28C43
"gpg"

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Message #8 received at 22941 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Daiki Ueno <ueno <at> gnu.org>
To: Iñigo Serna <inigoserna <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 22941 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22941: 25.1.50;
 epa-list-secret-keys does not find gpg private keys
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 12:30:50 +0900

tag 22941 notabug
close 22941
stop

Iñigo Serna <inigoserna <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Since a couple of months ago emacs 25.0.x (last tested as 2016/03/08
> from git master) can't open encrypted files (using symmetric keys), as
> epa can't find secret keys from gpg.
>
> This is the error message I get:
> """
> Error while decrypting with "gpg":
>
> gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit RSA key, ID C0ED9C8489B28C43, created 2016-01-12
>       "Iñigo Serna (XXX.YY) <inigo <at> XXX.YY>"
> gpg: decryption failed: No secret key
> """
>
> I use gpg (not gpg2) so I added '(setq epg-gpg-program "gpg")' to my
> configuration as new epa defaults to gpg2 when I've run "emacs -Q -nw".
>
> `epa-list-secret-keys` does not find any keys.
>
> This same configuration works ok with 24.5.1 (from Fedora 23 x86_64), and
> even `epa-list-secret-keys` shows the private keys correctly.

This behavior is intended, if the key was created with gpg2.  GnuPG 2.1
removed support for secring.gpg, which was used by pre-2.1 versions.
That is one of the reasons we switched the default to "gpg2".

See doc/whats-new-in-2.1.txt in GnuPG:

1.1 Removal of the secret keyring
─────────────────────────────────
[...]
  2.1.  However, any change to the private keys using the new /gpg/ will
  not show up when using pre-2.1 versions of GnuPG and vice versa.

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno

Message #15 received at 22941 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Iñigo Serna <inigoserna <at> gmail.com>
To: Daiki Ueno <ueno <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 22941 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22941: 25.1.50;
 epa-list-secret-keys does not find gpg private keys
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 18:17:24 +0100

Hello, and thanks for your answer.

Daiki Ueno <ueno <at> gnu.org> writes:
> [...]
>
> This behavior is intended, if the key was created with gpg2.  GnuPG 2.1
> removed support for secring.gpg, which was used by pre-2.1 versions.
> That is one of the reasons we switched the default to "gpg2".

Sorry, I don't understand.
The key was generated with gpg v1.x, and I want to continue using gpg
v1.x within emacs. From cli, I can see the correct key with "gpg -K".

I understand from the doc you cited that now it is not possible 
to use gpg v1.x keys with gpg v2.1+ and vice versa. But in my case I
want to use a v1.x key with gpg v1.x. And that's why I set
`epg-pgp-program' to "gpg" instead of using default "gpg2".

Am I missing something?

Thanks in advance,
Iñigo Serna


> tag 22941 notabug
> close 22941
> stop
>
> Iñigo Serna <inigoserna <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Since a couple of months ago emacs 25.0.x (last tested as 2016/03/08
>> from git master) can't open encrypted files (using symmetric keys), as
>> epa can't find secret keys from gpg.
>>
>> This is the error message I get:
>> """
>> Error while decrypting with "gpg":
>>
>> gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit RSA key, ID C0ED9C8489B28C43, created 2016-01-12
>>       "Iñigo Serna (XXX.YY) <inigo <at> XXX.YY>"
>> gpg: decryption failed: No secret key
>> """
>>
>> I use gpg (not gpg2) so I added '(setq epg-gpg-program "gpg")' to my
>> configuration as new epa defaults to gpg2 when I've run "emacs -Q -nw".
>>
>> `epa-list-secret-keys` does not find any keys.
>>
>> This same configuration works ok with 24.5.1 (from Fedora 23 x86_64), and
>> even `epa-list-secret-keys` shows the private keys correctly.
>
> This behavior is intended, if the key was created with gpg2.  GnuPG 2.1
> removed support for secring.gpg, which was used by pre-2.1 versions.
> That is one of the reasons we switched the default to "gpg2".
>
> See doc/whats-new-in-2.1.txt in GnuPG:
>
> 1.1 Removal of the secret keyring
> ─────────────────────────────────
> [...]
>   2.1.  However, any change to the private keys using the new /gpg/ will
>   not show up when using pre-2.1 versions of GnuPG and vice versa.
>
> Regards,


-- 
Iñigo Serna

Message #18 received at 22941 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Daiki Ueno <ueno <at> gnu.org>
To: Iñigo Serna <inigoserna <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 22941 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22941: 25.1.50;
 epa-list-secret-keys does not find gpg private keys
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 07:23:56 +0900

Iñigo Serna <inigoserna <at> gmail.com> writes:

> The key was generated with gpg v1.x, and I want to continue using gpg
> v1.x within emacs. From cli, I can see the correct key with "gpg -K".

Then I suspect that Emacs is using "gpg2" instead of "gpg" regardless of
the `epg-gpg-program' setting.  How do you set the variable, with `setq'
or M-x customize ?

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno

Message #21 received at 22941 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Iñigo Serna <inigoserna <at> gmail.com>
To: Daiki Ueno <ueno <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 22941 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22941: 25.1.50;
 epa-list-secret-keys does not find gpg private keys
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 12:06:26 +0100

Daiki Ueno <ueno <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Iñigo Serna <inigoserna <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> The key was generated with gpg v1.x, and I want to continue using gpg
>> v1.x within emacs. From cli, I can see the correct key with "gpg -K".
>
> Then I suspect that Emacs is using "gpg2" instead of "gpg" regardless of
> the `epg-gpg-program' setting.  How do you set the variable, with `setq'
> or M-x customize ?

I use 'setq' as mentioned in the first message.
Even, "gpg" is showed in the error message:

"""
Error while decrypting with "gpg":

gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit RSA key, ID 89B28C43, created 2016-01-12
      "Iñigo Serna (XXX.YY) <inigo <at> serna.eu>"
gpg: decryption failed: No secret key
"""

Thanks,
Iñigo Serna

Message #24 received at 22941 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Daiki Ueno <ueno <at> gnu.org>
To: Iñigo Serna <inigoserna <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 22941 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22941: 25.1.50;
 epa-list-secret-keys does not find gpg private keys
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 15:01:09 +0900

Iñigo Serna <inigoserna <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I use 'setq' as mentioned in the first message.
> Even, "gpg" is showed in the error message:
>
> """
> Error while decrypting with "gpg":
>
> gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit RSA key, ID 89B28C43, created 2016-01-12
>       "Iñigo Serna (XXX.YY) <inigo <at> serna.eu>"
> gpg: decryption failed: No secret key
> """

That's strange indeed.  Are you able to check what is happening by
setting (setq epg-debug t) and looking at the " *epg-debug*" buffer
(note the first whitespace)?  The buffer should contain the actual
command-line and the interactions between Emacs and the "gpg" command.

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno

Message #27 received at 22941 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Iñigo Serna <inigoserna <at> gmail.com>
To: Daiki Ueno <ueno <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 22941 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22941: 25.1.50;
 epa-list-secret-keys does not find gpg private keys
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 10:13:42 +0100

Hi

Daiki Ueno <ueno <at> gnu.org> writes:
> That's strange indeed.  Are you able to check what is happening by
> setting (setq epg-debug t) and looking at the " *epg-debug*" buffer
> (note the first whitespace)?  The buffer should contain the actual
> command-line and the interactions between Emacs and the "gpg" command.

You were right, it is using gpg2!

GPG_AGENT_INFO is not set
/usr/bin/gpg2 --no-tty --status-fd 1 --yes --enable-progress-filter --command-fd 0 --output /tmp/epg-output8110Oun --decrypt --/home/inigo/personal/agenda/other.org.gpg
[GNUPG:] PROGRESS /home/inigo/personal ? 0 3518
[GNUPG:] ENC_TO C0ED9C8489B28C43 1 0
[GNUPG:] NO_SECKEY C0ED9C8489B28C43
[GNUPG:] BEGIN_DECRYPTION
[GNUPG:] DECRYPTION_FAILED
[GNUPG:] PROGRESS /home/inigo/personal ? 3518 3518
[GNUPG:] END_DECRYPTION


I tested setting `epg-gpg-program' to something like "xxx", error buffer
displays "xxx" as gpg program in message, but debug shows
"/usr/bin/gpg2" again.

Note I have gpg and gpg2 both installed on my system.
I can't uninstall gpg2 package, but I've tried renaming /usr/bin/gpg2 to
somenthing else; in this case the encrypted file is correctly opened
even without setting `epg-gpg-program' to "gpg".
So I think problem comes that when epa finds gpg2 binary in system it
does not honore `epg-gpg-program' setting.

Thanks,
Iñigo Serna

Message #30 received at 22941 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Daiki Ueno <ueno <at> gnu.org>
To: Iñigo Serna <inigoserna <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 22941 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22941: 25.1.50;
 epa-list-secret-keys does not find gpg private keys
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 18:26:27 +0900

Iñigo Serna <inigoserna <at> gmail.com> writes:

> So I think problem comes that when epa finds gpg2 binary in system it
> does not honore `epg-gpg-program' setting.

Then I guess you could avoid the problem by setting the variable with
M-x customize-variable and save the configuration, instead of `setq', as
epg respects the setting through custom:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/epg-config.el#n117

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno

Message #33 received at 22941 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Iñigo Serna <inigoserna <at> gmail.com>
To: Daiki Ueno <ueno <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 22941 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22941: 25.1.50;
 epa-list-secret-keys does not find gpg private keys
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 11:02:03 +0100

Daiki Ueno <ueno <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Iñigo Serna <inigoserna <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> So I think problem comes that when epa finds gpg2 binary in system it
>> does not honore `epg-gpg-program' setting.
>
> Then I guess you could avoid the problem by setting the variable with
> M-x customize-variable and save the configuration, instead of `setq', as
> epg respects the setting through custom:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/epg-config.el#n117

Bingo!
It works now when setting the variable through `customize-variable'.

Thanks a lot for your time and help,
Iñigo Serna

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