Gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.9 versus gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.23

[Anna Kitces and Seth Fishman]

Dear gpg users:

I am migrating to gpg 2.2

All my gpg 1.4 keys were migrated to 2.2 during the upgrade.

When I try to decrypt a document I am getting the following:


gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit RSA key, ID 2BDB2DD8782B904E, created 2017-03-15

      "mykey <fishkits at hotmail.com>"

gpg: public key decryption failed: No pinentry

gpg: decryption failed: No secret key


I am thinking maybe there is a minimum version of pinentry required?


I am running on two platforms:  Linux, RHEL 7.3 (Maipo) and Unix, Solaris 11. The Solaris machine has pinentry 0.7.6 already provided and the Linux box has 0.8.1. Is that the reason I am having this issue?


I have tried to upgrade pinentry going through the ./configure, gmake, gmake check, gmake install2 steps but I keep getting errors. So if I must upgrade pinentry, then if anyone has some pointers on this for either of both of these platforms, I'd be most appreciative.


Also, pinentry was not a factor before. Can I just get pinentry out of the equation altogether somehow or is that a bad idea.


Sorry for so many questions. Would appreciate any insight you can provide.

Regards,

Seth Fishman

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