Segfault when using symmetric encryption and gpg-agent

David Shaw dshaw@jabberwocky.com
Fri Mar 21 23:12:02 2003


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On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 02:52:55AM +0100, Malte Gell wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> when I tried to decrypt data which was encrypted symmetrically I got a 
> segfault. After disabling the use of gpg-agent in gpg.conf I was able 
> to decrypt that file.
> After enabling gpg-agent again the segfault appeared again.
> 
> I guess it's a bug of gpg-agent, since decrypting without gpg-agent 
> works ?
> 
> Besides that gpg-agent runs fine, I use it with the Aegypten software to 
> get PGP/MIME with KMail it really happens only with gpg-agent enabled 
> and trying to decrypt symm. encr. files.
> 
> Can this problem be confirmed ?

This is a known bug with using the agent with symmetric encryption,
and it will be fixed in 1.2.2.

David
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