GNU bug report logs - #26587
26.0.50; Gnus signs with false S/MIME key

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Packages: emacs, gnus;

Reported by: Torsten Bronger <bronger <at> physik.rwth-aachen.de>

Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 11:42:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed, security

Found in version 26.0.50

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

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From: Torsten Bronger <bronger <at> physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 26587 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26587: 26.0.50; Gnus signs with false S/MIME key
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 08:55:32 +0200
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Hallöchen!

Lars Ingebrigtsen writes:

> Torsten Bronger <bronger <at> physik.rwth-aachen.de> writes:
>
>> I would like the second key to be used.  But Gnus signs the email
>> with the first certificate.
>
> If I understand the code correctly, `epg-start-sign' is run here,
> and gpgsm is started with the parameters looking like
>
> "--detach-sign" "-u" "4A44812B553ACE6D" "-u" "4A44812B553ACEetc"
>
> with as many "-u"s as there are in your gpgsm store that matches
> whatever you've set up in that list that lists all your identities
> you want to use.
>
> Could you edebug that function to see if that's really what
> happens?  Because if it is, we're leaving the decision to gpgsm
> itself which user ID to use, and that seems very sub-optimal.

I don’t know how to edebug, so before learning this, I wrote a
wrapper for gpgsm, logging the parameters.  When sending the
message, gpgsm is called once, with the parameters

gpgsm --no-tty --status-fd 1 --yes --output /tmp/epg-outputmEnG08 --detach-sign

In particular, I don’t see "-u"s here.

Regards,
Torsten.

-- 
Torsten Bronger
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