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benjamin at py-soft

Jan 21, 2009, 10:52 AM

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Mac stuff!

I currently maintain the binary Mac distribution of GnuPG v2, MacGPG2.

Firstly, would there be any problems changing the identifying string
for GnuPG as follows:

Instead of:

$ gpg2 --version
gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.10
libgcrypt 1.4.3
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
[...]

It would be:
$ gpg2 --version
gpg (MacGPG2) 2.0.10
libgcrypt 1.4.3
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
[...]

or even:
$ gpg2 --version
gpg (GnuPG by MacGPG2) 2.0.10
libgcrypt 1.4.3
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
[...]

Many of our support enquiries arise from non-MacGPG2 installs and this
would make my life so much easier!

The other thing is one of my users is having problems with the native
Mac pinentry program. One theory I have is that it's not dealing with
character encoding properly - am I right in thinking that everything
should be passed to it in UTF-8? The source code is on my devel box
at home - I'll have a look when I get in...

However, he's also reporting problems with the curses pinentry program
and I'm almost completely stumped.

Ben

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benjamin at py-soft

Jan 21, 2009, 2:16 PM

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Re: Mac stuff! [In reply to]

2009/1/21 Benjamin Donnachie <benjamin [at] py-soft>:
> Red herring:

Then again:

getpin
D ßßßßß∫∫∫∫∫∫†(c)˙ƒ(c)∂ƒ(c)∂(c)
OK
bye
OK closing connection

That doesn't look like UTF-8 to me! Think I might have found the problem... :)

Ben

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wk at gnupg

Jan 22, 2009, 1:58 AM

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Re: Mac stuff! [In reply to]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:57, benjamin [at] py-soft said:

> char * pin = (char *) [[pinentry getPINField] UTF8String];

The Qt version does the same:

char *pin = (char *) pinentry.text().utf8();

I have not checked what the curses version does. In general everything
should be utf8 but for historical reasons we have never enforced that so
that you may end up with a mismatch between using the command line
version and Pinentry or another GUI to enter the passphrase.

I would advice to use the too initially used to set the passphrase and
change the passphrase to a plain ascii one. Later it can then be
changed using the GUI.

Salam-Shalom,

Werner

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Jan 22, 2009, 2:00 AM

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Re: Mac stuff! [In reply to]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:52, benjamin [at] py-soft said:

> It would be:
> $ gpg2 --version
> gpg (MacGPG2) 2.0.10

I see no problem with that. You merely should stick to that format of
version strings because gpgme and other tools know about that GNU
format.

Shalom-Salam,

Werner

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