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spurious "Sign failed" errors

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Message #15 received at 2412 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Daiki Ueno <ueno <at> unixuser.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Cc: 2412 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de>
Subject: Re: bug#2412: spurious "Sign failed" errors
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 05:40:18 +0900

Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com> writes:

> Hi Daiki,
>
> This may be a bug in epg, could you take a look?  This is Bug#2412 in
> the Emacs bug tracker.  Thanks.

Thanks for noticing this.

> Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de> wrote:
>> | Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Sign failed")
>> |   signal(error ("Sign failed"))
>> |   byte-code("<snipped>" [mml2015-epg-secret-key-id-list error password-cache-remove signal] 4)
>> |   mml2015-epg-sign((part (sign . "pgpmime") (tag-location . 186) (contents . "Nur ein Test.\n")))

It looks like epg is signalling the error.

Sven, could you please try (setq epg-debug t) and show me the contents
of " *epg-debug*" buffer next time you see the error?

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno

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