Re: Bug in pgg-gpg-process-region

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Satyaki Das <satyaki@chicory.stanford.edu> schrieb:

> frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster) writes:
>
>> frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster) wrote:
>>
>> Since nobody answered so far, let me try to clarify a little. Perhaps my
>> first mail was a little confuse.
>>
>>> ~$ echo "Mypass$phrase" | gpg --status-fd 2 --passphrase-fd 0 \
>>>  --output gpg.out --clearsign --armor --batch --verbose \
>>>  --local-user frank@kuesterei.ch netenv.conf; echo $?
>>>
>>> which should be exactly the call Gnus does. 
>
> I don't think the "$" char is the problem. I tried changing my
> passphrase to contain a "$" and everything still worked. Do you
> have non-ASCII characters in your passphrase?

Err, you're right. There is one char that is not on the american
keyboards standing around in the lab. I couldn't imagine that this one
could be a problem, it's been on german typewriters since the old ages.

I invented a new Passphrase now, and yes, though it's complicated, it
works. Still I feel that in the future, more and more people will be
using the characters they find on _their_ machine in their passphrases,
so it may be worth thinking about that; gpg itself doesn't have a
problem with that (at least not with iso-9985-?, may be different with
Unicode). 

However, there is one more problem. In a test mail with german Umlauts
in the body, Gnus didn't send the signed mail, instead complained: 

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Multibyte character in QP encoding region")
  signal(error ("Multibyte character in QP encoding region"))
  error("Multibyte character in QP encoding region")
  quoted-printable-encode-region(1 325)
  mml1991-pgg-sign((part (sign . "pgp") (tag-location . 374) (contents \
  . "alskdf\xf64\n-- \nDr. Frank K\x8fcster, Biozentrum der \
  Univ. Basel\nAbt. Biophysikalische Chemie\n")))
  mml1991-sign((part (sign . "pgp") (tag-location . 374) (contents
  . "alskdf\xf64\n-- \nDr. Frank K\x8fcster, Biozentrum der
  Univ. Basel\nAbt. Biophysikalische Chemie\n")))
  mml-pgp-sign-buffer((part (sign . "pgp") (tag-location . 374)
  (contents . "alskdf\xf64\n-- \nDr. Frank K\x8fcster, Biozentrum der
  Univ. Basel\nAbt. Biophysikalische Chemie\n")))
  mml-generate-mime-1((part (sign . "pgp") (tag-location . 374)
  (contents . "alskdf\xf64\n-- \nDr. Frank K\x8fcster, Biozentrum der
  Univ. Basel\nAbt. Biophysikalische Chemie\n")))
  mml-generate-mime()
  message-encode-message-body()
  message-send-mail(nil)
  message-send-via-mail(nil)
  message-send(nil)
  message-send-and-exit(nil)
  call-interactively(message-send-and-exit)

I wasn't even aware that I was sending quoted-printable, but have never
bothered with that in the last years.

Bye, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie