AW: How to fix "ERROR key_generate 3355453" / "GENKEY' failed: IPC call has been cancelled"

Fiedler Roman Roman.Fiedler at ait.ac.at
Wed Sep 5 11:35:34 CEST 2018


> Von: Werner Koch [mailto:wk at gnupg.org]
> 
> On Wed,  5 Sep 2018 10:45, Roman.Fiedler at ait.ac.at said:
> 
> > No, this is a signed AND encrypted message. Can gpgv only be
> > used to verify signatures on signed-only but not signed AND
> > encrypted messages, maybe due to encrypt AFTER sign scheme?
> 
> Correct.  The signature is encrypted and thus it needs to be decrypted
> before the signature can be checked.  gpgv is only for checking
> signature becuase it is designed to work without private keys.

Could you please update the documentation and the error messages
from gpg1/gpg2/gpgv to be more helpful?

Now I can also reproduce with gpg1/gpg2 verify on encrypted messages,
gpg1 reports "unexpected data", which is a little more helpful than
"unexpected error" from gpg2.

Regards,
Roman



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