Passphrase no longer works?

[Chris Clarke]

Ok,

I've written a Perl script that goes through every possible
capitilization combination for my passphrase, and they still all fail,
so that rules out the possibility that I've been pathologically
mistyping my phrase (with a sticky shift or something).

Are there any know instances of the keyring somehow getting corrupted?
I ran into this problem between editing and reading a message, and
there was only one user on the machine, so I can guarantee that there
were no configuration changes in the interim.

Chris.

On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 01:43:56AM -0800, Chris Clarke wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been using gpg 1.0.1 since mid January with no apparent
> problems.  Today all of a sudden I can't get my passphrase to unlock
> my secret key.  Whenever I try I get the following output:
> 
> 	> gpg --sign temp.txt 
> 
> 	You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
> 	user: "Chris Clarke <stcanard@yahoo.com>"
> 	1024-bit DSA key, ID B057D06A, created 2000-01-17
> 
> 	gpg: Invalid passphrase; please try again ...
> 
> 	You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
> 	user: "Chris Clarke <stcanard@yahoo.com>"
> 	1024-bit DSA key, ID B057D06A, created 2000-01-17
> 
> 	gpg: Invalid passphrase; please try again ...
> 
> 	You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
> 	user: "Chris Clarke <stcanard@yahoo.com>"
> 	1024-bit DSA key, ID B057D06A, created 2000-01-17
> 
> 	gpg: no default secret key: bad passphrase
> 	gpg: signing failed: bad passphrase
> 
> I can absolutely guarantee that I'm using the correct passphrase, and
> it hasn't been changed since I created the key in January (even
> assuming a horrible typing ability, in 3 hours of trying I must have
> typed it correctly at least once).  I first ran into this problem when
> using Mutt 1.0.1i (which I've been using for several days now); I
> replied to a message that I received (first successfully decoding it),
> then when trying to send / sign the message gpg wouldn't let me in.
> The problem now appears when I try using gpg from the command line as
> shown above.
> 
> Earlier today I added the idea and rsa modules and imported a PGP 2.x
> signature, however I have sucessfully used gpg on my own keys since
> that time.  I've tried commenting out the extensions in my options
> file, however I still can't get in.
> 
> I'm using it on a x86 based SuSE 6.1 system.  I've even tried
> recompiling and reinstalling the package, to no avail.
> 
> I'm starting to get desperate -- does anyone have any idea what's
> going on here?
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris.
> --
> Chris Clarke
> stcanard@yahoo.com
>