From: Abigail Date: 02:08 on 02 Apr 2005 Subject: mutt/GPG --GvXjxJ+pjyke8COw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline So, I have GPG installed. And I use mutt, which can deal with GPG. By default, it will sign your mail. To do so, it needs your private key - which is protected by a passphrase. So, if it needs the private key, it will ask for the passphrase. And to avoid having to type the passphrase over and over again, it will remember your passphrase, until you either quit mutt, or a timeout happens. Sounds useful, this caching of the passphrase, doesn't it? It is. Until you mistype your passphrase. GPG will refuse to unlock the private key (rightly so), but oh, so helpful mutt, it will remember the passphrase you typed in. So GPG will fail. Again, and again, and again. You'll have to quit mutt and restart it to get out this state (or wait for a timeout). And if there's a keystroke to invalidate the cache, they've managed to hide what the keystroke is. Abigail --GvXjxJ+pjyke8COw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCTfCEBOh7Ggo6rasRAuSwAKDFYu2AwreMqGK6TbjyGngpAhazPQCeKf3A Iiy00eOITdFnhn/wuRaXazA= =oObu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GvXjxJ+pjyke8COw--
From: James Green Date: 04:46 on 02 Apr 2005 Subject: Re: mutt/GPG --LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 03:08:20AM +0200, Abigail wrote: > It is. Until you mistype your passphrase. GPG will refuse to unlock > the private key (rightly so), but oh, so helpful mutt, it will remember > the passphrase you typed in. So GPG will fail. Again, and again, and > again. You'll have to quit mutt and restart it to get out this state > (or wait for a timeout). And if there's a keystroke to invalidate the > cache, they've managed to hide what the keystroke is. ^F It's in the first screenfull of help when you press "?", too. ObHate: it still doesn't display my fucking pound signs, though, does it? James. --=20 jkg@xxxxx.xxx.xx | occasional administrator, http://nottingham.openguides.o= rg/ What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature? -- Nero Wolfe, "The League of Frightened Men" --LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCThV5rhaQ8IGuFv8RArdfAJ97+5EjOmhKa99Ox+orPKRTZYpYLwCeJUMH PTwiqnTNgrjTgmPcGDNoEO8= =s8kV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X--
From: Simon Wistow Date: 12:30 on 05 Apr 2005 Subject: Re: mutt/GPG On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 04:46:01AM +0100, James Green said: > ObHate: it still doesn't display my fucking pound signs, though, does it? Err, you mean like this http://thegestalt.org/simon/images/pound.png
From: Dominic Hargreaves Date: 01:20 on 05 Apr 2005 Subject: Re: mutt/GPG James Green <jkg@xxxxx.xxx.xx> wrote: > ObHate: it still doesn't display my fucking pound signs, though, does it? Oh, you too? I was about to come to the conclusion that it was a personal vendetta laid against me by the mutt developers. (still, at least it isn't tin) (still, at least it lets me post to this list, unlike the nntp interface which seems to barf something about qmail when I try to post)
From: sungo Date: 04:38 on 05 Apr 2005 Subject: Re: mutt/GPG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Abigail wrote: > And if there's a keystroke to invalidate the > cache, they've managed to hide what the keystroke is. ctrl-F. yes its documented but only as a one line mention 80 pages down in the help. took me a google or two to find it. - -- sungo http://eekeek.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCUghC5xrCYZCVAioRArAgAJoCe4vTSC9b5noE8ppnG2XYkEP0+wCfSC5E vnSphOij4xfkmTm+wX/dvfg= =HgnV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
From: Jody Belka Date: 12:17 on 05 Apr 2005 Subject: Re: mutt/GPG On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 11:38:42PM -0400, sungo wrote: > ctrl-F. yes its documented but only as a one line mention 80 pages down > in the help. took me a google or two to find it. Hmm, in the mutt i've got here it's the 3rd line in the help. J
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