Frustration with GnuPG (getting it to work)
Tijl Coosemans
tijl at FreeBSD.org
Sat May 2 11:04:49 UTC 2015
On Fri, 01 May 2015 19:37:26 +0200 Christian Baer <christian.baer at uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
> Good afternoon everyone!
>
> This post will probably end up being a little long. As you have probably
> noticed, I tend to read and try a lot before I post on the list. :-)
>
> A few days ago I installed gnupg [gpg (GnuPG) 2.1.2 libgcrypt 1.6.3].
> Generating a few new keys (for work, personal use and playing around) was
> pretty trivial and worked fine on the command line (--full-gen-key) and with
> KGpg.
>
> However I cannot get gnupg to work either in KMail or Claws. Let's start with
> Kmail...
>
> In KMail I cannot find any otions to point to gnupg or gpg. The settings under
> identities -> $NAME -> cryptography do find my keys for OpenPGP, so something
> does seem to work. :-) However, when I try to decrypt a message, I just get
> this (formatting lost):
>
> Encrypted message
> This message is encrypted.
> Decrypt Message
> End of encrypted message
>
> And when I click "Decrypt message", I get this:
>
> Encrypted message (decryption not possible)
> Reason: Crypto plug-in "OpenPGP" could not decrypt the data.
> Error: Decryption failed
> Could not decrypt the data.
> End of encrypted message
>
> I am not asked for a passphrase. This message is displayed in the regular
> message place, after a very short delay.
>
> After quite a bit of ulilizing a search engine, I activated the gpg-agent.
> This is my current gpg.conf (compressed):
>
> keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net
> utf8-strings
> debug-level basic
> log-file socket:///home/christian/.gnupg/log-socket
> display-charset utf-8
> fixed-list-mode
> keyid-format 0xlong
> fingerprint
> personal-digest-preferences SHA512 SHA384 SHA256
> default-preference-list SHA512 SHA384 SHA256 SHA224 AES256 AES192 AES\\
> CAST5 BZIP2 ZLIB ZIP Uncompressed
> use-agent
> verify-options show-uid-validity
> list-options show-uid-validity
> cert-digest-algo SHA512
>
> During this searching and reading, I found a lot of stuff that was probably
> outdated. At least I assume as much because the options in those howtos or
> articles just don't exist in my KMail. What all seem to agree upon is the
> usagte of pinentry. On my computer only pinentry-tty is installed. In the
> ports there is a pinentry-qt, but there does not seem to be a precompiled
> package:
>
> root at falbala:~ # whereis pinentry-qt4
> pinentry-qt4: /usr/ports/security/pinentry-qt4
> root at falbala:~ # pkg install security/pinentry-qt4
> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
> FreeBSD repository is up-to-date.
> All repositories are up-to-date.
> pkg: No packages available to install matching 'security/pinentry-qt4' have
> been found in the repositories
>
> Ok, so I thought I'd just compile it myself. What are the ports for? That did
> not go well either:
>
> root at falbala:/usr/ports/security/pinentry-qt4 # make
> ===> pinentry-qt4-0.9.1 does not compile with libc++.
> *** Error code 1
> Stop.
> make: stopped in /usr/ports/security/pinentry-qt4
>
> The gtk2-version complains that I do not have libiconv>=1.14_8 installed. But
> since I am pretty much using KMail most of the time (as part of Kontact which
> I use together with a Kolab account), the qt4 version is the one of choice -
> IMHO. So I did not investigate this any further.
>
> Then claws came into the picture. I know this client very well and would
> probably use it and not KMail, if Kontact didn't have the nice integration of
> the calendar and address book for use with Kolab.
>
> With claws I can't get GnuPG to work either. There are no options to set.
> GnuPG should be controlled via a plugin. There don't seem to be any installed.
> The GnuPG plugin I cannon find in the ports tree. The Claws Mail website
> stated that the required plugin should ship with the client. I installed Claws
> as a precompiled package.
>
> As you can probably imagine, I am a little frustrated right about now, because
> the hassle of getting GnuPG to work is getting a bit too big for my taste -
> especially since this should be a relatively trivial task.
>
> Can someone please give me a push in the right direction so I do not have to
> torture my search engine any further and read gigabytes of outdated text?
For KMail install pinentry-gtk2. For Claws Mail install claws-mail-pgp.
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