How to configure alpine to use pgp
Rachit Agrawal
signing?
Thanks
Rachit
Rob Brown
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On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 at 08:03 -0700, Rachit Agrawal wrote:
> Can anyone please help me for setting up alpine to use pgp email
> signing?
I seem to be using PinePgp 0.18.0 from
<http://hany.sk/~hany/software/pinepgp/>. A google search for pinepgp
and for pgppine finds much potentially useful advice.
hth
- - Rob
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Rob Brown b r o w n a t g m c l d o t c o m
G. Michaels Consulting Ltd. (780)438-9343 (voice)
Edmonton (780)437-3367 (FAX)
http://gmcl.com/
public key http://gmcl.com/people/brown.txt
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux)
iD8DBQFKOTC07dpyz1U70VQRAuUIAJ49uGqRaa+s4TbbsVu6bdgT2OI5/QCdEKzl
DBES6/lELyQz7buzRYY9a8A=
=zfYz
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Erik Quaeghebeur
>
>> Can anyone please help me for setting up alpine to use pgp email signing?
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Rob Brown wrote:
>
> I seem to be using PinePgp 0.18.0 from
> <http://hany.sk/~hany/software/pinepgp/>. A google search for pinepgp and
> for pgppine finds much potentially useful advice.
As far as I know, Topal is the most up-to-date solution:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/phil.brooke/topal/
Erik
Rachit Agrawal
I tried pinepgp, and after doing all the setup. I get the following
error message.
"Couldn't find certificate needed to sign."
And i am bit reluctant to use Topal. Don't have any reason, but still
I don't want to install anything new.
Can you please help me out with the above error message?
Thanks
Vitus Jensen
>> On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 at 08:03 -0700, Rachit Agrawal wrote:
>>
>> > Can anyone please help me for setting up alpine to use pgp email
>> > signing?
>
> On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Rob Brown wrote:
>>
>> I seem to be using PinePgp 0.18.0 from
>> <http://hany.sk/~hany/software/pinepgp/>. A google search for pinepgp ad
>> for pgppine finds much potentially useful advice.
>
> As far as I know, Topal is the most up-to-date solution:
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/phil.brooke/topal/
topal is working fine here and the author is very helpfull in case of
problems. If your distribution doesn't supply a recent version
compilation of the archive from Phil went very smooth.
I'm trying to get gpgme support directly into alpine but this takes time.
Vitus
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Rob Brown
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On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 at 22:52 -0700, Rachit Agrawal wrote:
> I tried pinepgp, and after doing all the setup. I get the following
> error message.
>
> "Couldn't find certificate needed to sign."
As near as I can tell, this message does not come from pinepgp. It is
strange to me to see the word "certificate" in the error message, as I
thought that pgp / gnupg used the word "key".
So some questions for you:
What is the host operating system?
What version of alpine?
What version of pgp or gnupg?
Can you sign a file using the appropriate pgp or gnupg commands?
What did you do to produce the error message?
- - Rob
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Rob Brown b r o w n a t g m c l d o t c o m
G. Michaels Consulting Ltd. (780)438-9343 (voice)
Edmonton (780)437-3367 (FAX)
http://gmcl.com/
http://gmcl.com/people/brown.txt
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux)
iD8DBQFKOlxc7dpyz1U70VQRArc2AJ4rqm/huhBe2D1kz3VzLNMPW/JZygCeLkIl
THUGlmAEqkvfhVxSy49sjC4=
=I4uf
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Rachit Agrawal
>
Thanks Vitus and Rob,
Here are the info you asked for.
What is the host operating system?
fedora core 11
What version of alpine?
2.00
What version of pgp or gnupg?
gnupg 1.4.9
Can you sign a file using the appropriate pgp or gnupg commands?
Yes
What did you do to produce the error message?
In Alpine, when I tried sending a message(Ctrl + x) -> (G). It gave me
this particular error.
I hope all this info will give you a clue what the problem is. Do tell
me what should I do?
Rachit Agrawal
>
I have a passphrase and since alpine does not ask for passphrase. Can
that be a problem??
Rob Brown
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On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 at 10:26 -0700, Rachit Agrawal wrote:
> In Alpine, when I tried sending a message(Ctrl + x) -> (G). It gave
> me this particular error.
Don't you have to press <return>? When I tried that, it just changed
the prompt. Eventually, I have to press <return> if I want to send
the message.
If you get this error message before you press return, I don't know
what to think.
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 at 11:28 -0700, Rachit Agrawal wrote:
> I have a passphrase and since alpine does not ask for passphrase.
> Can that be a problem??
Or perhaps a symptom.
When I finally press <return> (above), it runs the pinepgp script,
which runs gpg, which prompts for my passphrase.
So it would seem that you are never getting to gpg.
In /usr/local/lib/pine.conf I see:
# This variable takes a list of programs that message text is piped into
# after MIME decoding, prior to display.
display-filters=_LEADING("-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----")_ /usr/local/bin/gpg-check,
_LEADING("-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----")_ /usr/local/bin/gpg-check
# This defines a program that message text is piped into before MIME
# encoding, prior to sending
sending-filters=/usr/local/bin/gpg-sign,
/usr/local/bin/gpg-encrypt _RECIPIENTS_,
/usr/local/bin/gpg-sign+encrypt _RECIPIENTS_
Do you have these filters defined? Do these files exist?
If you pipe a text file into /usr/local/bin/gpg-sign, does it output
a signed message?
- - Rob
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Rob Brown b r o w n a t g m c l d o t c o m
G. Michaels Consulting Ltd. (780)438-9343 (voice)
Edmonton (780)437-3367 (FAX)
http://gmcl.com/
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux)
iD8DBQFKOp/y7dpyz1U70VQRAopBAJ0YfDqqf9/CUmJMpjae2PcPMPHrBwCfZSBe
F76YNv+4PEwDcNid9aQpOnw=
=sTov
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Frank Merlott
> What version of pgp or gnupg?
> gnupg 1.4.9
>
available
for download, GnuPG 2.0.
GnuPG 2.0 is the new modularized version of GnuPG supporting OpenPGP
and S/MIME
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Rachit Agrawal
But is version the problem?? I don't think so..
Rachit Agrawal
>
yes I had those filters. But its not working. But I have one doubt, I
don't have any binary called gpg-check or gpg-sign. So, that will any
way be wrong.
Rachit Agrawal
Well got what was the problem.
It was taking wrong user-id and was looking for the key corresponding
to this user-id. Alpine by default takes linux login name as your user-
id. And this is not same for me as my email id. So, there was this
issue.
Made a role and did the configuration. Now Its working fine.
Thanks all.
Rob Brown
> .... Now Its working fine.
Great!
Beartooth TpBkR
[....]
> I'm trying to get gpgme support directly into alpine but this takes
> time.
Under what distro?? gpgme, which comes with Fedora, explains its
name as GPG Made Easy!
Please give us a follow-up when you have it working!
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supposing you care -- but you can tell who has a mind.
O. Albrecht Skibbe
> topal is working fine here and the author is very helpfull in case
> of problems.
I can second on that.
> I'm trying to get gpgme support directly into alpine but this takes
> time.
Was there any hint in this group for the fork of alpine? Might be of
interest for developers: <http://sourceforge.net/projects/re-alpine/>
Cheers,
Olaf
Frank Merlott
> On Jun 19, 1:12ï¿œpm, Frank Merlott <Fr...@has.no.email> wrote:
>>> ï¿œWhat version of pgp or gnupg?
>>> gnupg 1.4.9
>>
>> In case it may be of use, there is a new updated GnuPG version
>> available
>> for download, GnuPG 2.0.
>>
>> GnuPG 2.0 is the new modularized version of GnuPG supporting OpenPGP
>> and S/MIME
>>
>> http://gnupg.org/download/
>>
>
I dont think it is, but is always best to runthe latest stable release,
specially when it comes to security software.
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phil...@yahoo.co.uk
> I tried pinepgp, and after doing all the setup. I get the following
> error message.
>
> "Couldn't find certificate needed to sign."
I'm rather late to this thread, but I've had several queries about
that message in respect of Topal (and I think users of other GPG/PGP
filters have had similar issues), so I'll post anyway.... The
"Couldn't find certificate needed to sign." message is part of
Alpine's S/MIME support. One option is to turn off the internal S/
MIME support via the (hidden) config option ("S/MIME -- Turn off S/
MIME").
HTH,
Phil.