Bug 611544 – app-crypt/gnupg-2.1.19[-smartcard]: ssh-agent emu broken

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Michał Górny 2017-03-03 18:03:24 UTC]

Created attachment 465810 [details]
gpg-agent.log

What we talked on IRC -- it seems that the new version fails to handle SSH keys in GPG keyring when compiled without scdaemon.

[Comment 1 Michał Górny 2017-03-03 18:33:59 UTC]

Created attachment 465852 [details]
gpg-agent.sc.log

Here's the log with USE=smartcard enabled. As we suspected, it works fine.

[Comment 2 Alon Bar-Lev (RETIRED) 2017-03-03 19:30:48 UTC]

interesting!
this is fundamental issue of the gpg-agent regardless of the ssh, it seems like it assumes it can run it in any case probably to refresh keys. Recently they have rework private key usage and broken lots of other interfaces.

[Comment 3 Kristian Fiskerstrand (RETIRED) 2017-03-03 19:50:55 UTC]

(In reply to Alon Bar-Lev from comment #2)
> interesting!
> this is fundamental issue of the gpg-agent regardless of the ssh, it seems
> like it assumes it can run it in any case probably to refresh keys. Recently
> they have rework private key usage and broken lots of other interfaces.

Indeed. I'll follow up with upstream on this as discussed in #gentoo-crypto on IRC.

[Comment 4 Kristian Fiskerstrand (RETIRED) 2017-03-06 22:34:15 UTC]

Please try 2.1.19-r1

[Comment 5 Michał Górny 2017-03-08 10:55:57 UTC]

(In reply to Kristian Fiskerstrand from comment #4)
> Please try 2.1.19-r1

Seems to work fine, thanks!