Bug 561292 – app-crypt/gnupg-2.1.8 gpg-agent improperly handles ed25519 ssh keys

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Łukasz Stelmach 2015-09-23 18:51:47 UTC]

There was a bug upstream that made gpg-agent improperly handle ed25519 ssh keys. It has been fixed in commit 7d5999f0.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install gnupg 2.1.8
2. add an ed25519 ssh-key
3. run ssh-add -l
Actual Results:  
ssh-add prints

error fetching identities for protocol 2: invalid format
The agent has no identities.


Expected Results:  
ssh-add should print

256 SHA256:----------here-be-the-digest------------ ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 (ED25519)

[Comment 1 Łukasz Stelmach 2015-09-23 18:52:39 UTC]

Created attachment 412672 [details, diff]
Fix registering SSH Key of Ed25519.

[Comment 2 Kristian Fiskerstrand (RETIRED) 2015-09-28 08:39:46 UTC]

Thanks for the report. I do not expect to create a new revision with this patch, but will rather wait for a new upstream release (with the current release cycle a new version is released roughly once a month).

[Comment 3 Kristian Fiskerstrand (RETIRED) 2015-10-10 11:14:38 UTC]

gnupg 2.1.9 is now in tree that incorporates this fix