Passphrase no longer works?

[Michael Roth]

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On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Chris Clarke wrote:

> 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.
    
AFAIK, there are no reports about problems regarding passphrases on secret
keys in GnuPG.
  
Some things to check:
    
  * Check the date when your secret keyring was last changed:
    
      ls -l ~/.gnupg/secring.gpg
    
  * Check if you have more than one secret key in your keyring:
    
      gpg --list-secret-keys
    
    If you have more than one secret key, use -u KEYID to select the

      gpg --list-secret-keys
  
    If you have more than one secret key, use -u KEYID to select the
    right one you would like to use.

  * It might be possible that you added a wrong "local-user" or
    "default-key" option to your ~/.gnupg/options file. (I didn't checked
    this if this could cause trouble.)

  * Try to remember your correct passphrase... ;-\
    For example sometimes I have days I must type in my passphrase more
    than six times until I get it correct... That's a bit annoying but
    happens.
    
    
cu  
  
                Michael
    
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