[Users] [Bug 3045] New: Claws prompts for passphrase on PGP message inside text/plain MIME part

Manfred Schmitt claws at slashproc.org
Sun Jan 5 17:17:56 CET 2014


Michael Schwendt wrote:

> On Sun, 5 Jan 2014 14:51:07 +0100, Manfred Schmitt wrote:
> 
> > > and with the password in there one can decrypt the small part that
> > > is included inline.
> > 
> > ... if it had been encrypted to yourself ;-)
> 
> Since the inline data are certainly _not_ encrypted with my public key,
> they may be decrypted by anyone knowing the passphrase which is mentioned
> in the bugzilla ticket. After cut'n'paste into file "a.asc":
> 
>   $ gpg a.asc
>   gpg: TWOFISH encrypted data
>   [...]
> 
Doh, obviously I didn't read the mail carefully enough!
It's new to me that gpg can also use a shared password mode.
And it works in Claws too.

Bye,
Manne



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