On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 07:59:22PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > Yikes, i can confirm this. Thanks for the report. > > Interestingly, if i paste a string of 34 characters into pinentry-gtk-2, > it works fine. It's only if i type them one at a time that the failure > happens. > > Temporary workaround while i sort this out with upstream: > > * you can try installing pinentry-gnome3, which will use the gcr > message prompting, or pinentry-qt4 if you prefer the qt toolkits.
I've found another temporary workaround, which is to #define MIN_SIZE to 32 in gtksecentry.c. I think what's happening is that the code to increase the buffer size is failing somewhere. I thought I'd mention that it solves the problem for me in case it's helpful for troubleshooting. It should work for 0 < len(passphrase) < 64. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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