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Satyaki Das <satyakid@stanford.edu> writes:

> I've two GPG keys, the older one being a revoked key of
> length 768. However with PGG, I can't decrypt any of the
> messages that were encrypted for the older key. The problem is
> that PGG feeds the pass phrase of my new key when trying to
> decrypt messages with the old key.
>
> The attached patch solves this by checking the message to be
> decrypted to find the secret key in the user's ring that it
> was encrypted for. Then the passphrase of this key is prompted
> for, or read from the cache, and the correct passphrase given
> to gpg.
>
> Such functionality in PGG would be very helpful.

I believe this fixes a bug I mentioned earlier in the key passphrase
revamp, so I have installed this despite the feature freeze.  Thanks!