Re: I have to enter my passphrase twice?

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> writes:

> At 2003-05-05T14:30:26Z, Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> writes:
>
>> As of recent, I have to enter my GnuPG passphrase twice when signing
>> outgoing messages.
>
> OK, I've narrowed down the trigger behavior slightly.  It happens when I use
> "<#secure method=pgp mode=sign>" to sign my email (instead of
> "method=pgpmime").  When I hit C-c C-c to send my message, I get:
>
>     GnuPG passphrase for kirk@strauser.com: 
>
> After I enter it, I see:
>
>     Sending via mail...
>
> flash briefly across the minibuffer.  Then I get a second prompt:
>
>     GnuPG passphrase for kirk@strauser.com: 
>
> and only after I correctly re-enter my passphrase do I get the "Message
> sent" message.
>
> The supremely annoying part is that if I mis-enter my passphrase at the
> second prompt, which I sometimes do because it's a fairly long phrase, then
> the message gets sent twice.

Do you use GCC?  Perhaps the message that is mailed is signed
correctly, but the second signature (for GCC) fails, and the GCC code
doesn't signal an error.  Can you look in your GCC group?

> Finally, I've set pgg-default-user-id to "8D02A6F1", which is the
> fingerprint for my key.  Why is it now sometimes prompting for the key for
> "kirk@strauser.com", which is something it had never done before?

This problem should be fixed by the patch below.  Please try it and
tell if it works or not.

Index: mml1991.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/gnus/lisp/mml1991.el,v
retrieving revision 6.22
diff -u -p -u -w -r6.22 mml1991.el
--- mml1991.el	2 May 2003 17:55:20 -0000	6.22
+++ mml1991.el	5 May 2003 15:54:17 -0000
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@
       (delete-region (point-min) (point)))
     (quoted-printable-decode-region (point-min) (point-max))
     (unless (let ((pgg-default-user-id
-		   (or (message-options-get 'message-sender)
+		   (or (message-options-get 'mml-sender)
 		       pgg-default-user-id)))
 	      (pgg-sign-region (point-min) (point-max) t))
       (pop-to-buffer pgg-errors-buffer)