| Posted on: | 11/08/21 23:40:33 |
| Last edited: | 04/03/22 19:28:44 |
After trying several things to fix encryption and decryption in GnuPG I have no real hopes. I honestly don’t know what to do but to keep asking. I’ve searched on stackoverflow for pinentry and gpg-agent acting up and taking too much time and I only found one stack overflow question [0] which didn’t get that close to my issue. It slows down when using the pinentry-curses, pinentry-gtk-2 binaries.
edit: I found out the problem! Thanks to u/xXbobby123Xx for discovering the solution, and this GNU forum: https://dev.gnupg.org/T3240 it appears to be a bug in gnome-keyring.
Uninstalling the gnome-keyring is the solution for now.
there appear to be 2 dev.gnupg.org forum posts: - https://dev.gnupg.org/T3240 - https://dev.gnupg.org/T4592 (this url is kinda broken but didn’t use to be)
I’ve been using the [https://passwordstore.org] program for quite a while now, about 8 months I’d say. All was going well until about 3 weeks ago. I don’t know what happened, what caused it or why. Pass started acting up, it took from 20 to 30 seconds what used to take literally 1 second. The pinentry-gtk-2 program was taking a whole lot of time to start. So I dug deeper. Eventually I found out that it definitely had something to do with GnuPG as decrypting files directly through GnuPG also yielded the same results, after all, pass is just a bash script that uses gpg encryption and decryption commands. So then I went searching on the internets and it was pretty bad. I couldn’t really find any information regarding GnuPG acting up except for [0], which
First of all, your help, any help would be greatly appreciated.
Maybe this will be Unix/Linux specific, i don’t really know.
Hello. I’ve tried almost* everything to get gpg up and running but it just,
won’t work! So, storytime. Almost after I went full linux I stumbled upon
pass, a great tool to manage passwords in a
convenient way. I’ve been using it for around 8-9 months. And it’s worked like
a charm, until about 3 weeks ago. I don’t know if this was a system upgrade or
something but point is, it just slowed way down. When requesting a password,
it’d take anywhere from 20 to 40 seconds to just show the pinentry binary (the
one that asks you for the password), in particular, the pinentry-gtk-2, but
guess what? I tried using the ncurses version also and it didn’t work! I tried
decrypting and encrypting files directly by using gpg, but yielded the same
results!, cause after all, pass is just a bash script that uses gpg commands
for encryption and decryption. So, yeah. After that, I tried searching on the
internets, but didn’t stumble upon anything at all except for
this which didn’t seem to
solve the problem, as my problem happened with all pinentry* binaries (yes,
even pinentry-tty !!). I tried the solution but it didn’t work. Later on,
actually yesterday, I hopped onto libera IRC to join the gnupg channel, as
suggested by members in the pass channel, as this is clearly much more
specific to gpg. In the gnupg channel I had the fortune to be able to talk to
someone to walk me through a ton of things. Testing, after testing and testing.
We even tried creating less-resource intensive keys, creating temporary gnu
directories to store keys in, et cetera. I’m documenting most (if not all, )
this info at this website .
Also, I should point out that the behaviour is not intermittent, it is
definitely constant. I do have a password cache enabled, but every time time
has passed or I manually clear the password cache (with echo RELOADAGENT |
gpg-connect-agent and then gpgconf --kill all) the same behaviour happens.
I haven’t tried this yet, but maybe later in the day I’ll try booting off a linux arch iso and trying to install gpg and checking if it’s my laptop or something…
*maybe i will reinstall arch linux
edit: add behaviour
Arch Linux. Hardware: T490. 16 GB RAM, 500 GB SSD. Intel core i7 8th gen.
neofetch [2]
$ uname --all
Linux t490-4rch 5.14.9-zen2-1-zen #1 ZEN SMP PREEMPT Fri, 01 Oct 2021 19:03:23 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux
strace pass show Test/random > strace.pass.show.test.random.out 2>&1