Re: Gedit plugin

[Stef Walter <stefw gnome org>]

On 27.04.2013 09:35, Pietro Battiston wrote:
> Il giorno ven, 26/04/2013 alle 21.48 +0200, Stef Walter ha scritto:
> > On 26.04.2013 16:38, Pietro Battiston wrote:
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > When I use the DBus method EncryptText(), I am asked for a list of keys.
> > > Assume I give some key of a friend of mine. When I try to decrypt the
> > > resulting text, I would expect the process to fail - I don't have her
> > > private key.
> > > Instead, gpg decrypts it without problems, because the text is encrypted
> > > both with my friend's key and _my_ key.
> >
> > I think if you have a default key it'll be automatically included in the
> > recipients.
>
> OK.
>
> > > Fair enough, it can make sense, in principle, that I'm able to decrypt
> > > any text I encrypted. But then, I would expect EncryptText() to also
> > > accept an empty list of keys: it should then encrypt using only my key.
> > > Instead, it refuses, pretending some recipients.
> >
> > Most likely a bug. This is implemented in libcryptui, which doesn't have
> > much maintenance. but I would include a patch (and help you get started
> > with building it) if you like.
>
> Well, that's not crucial for me (and anyway I can't rely on it if it
> doesn't get distributed, so that wouldn't help). I just wanted to be
> sure I wasn't missing something.
>
> Instead I have another question: of all the keys I get with the
> "ListKeys" function of org.gnome.seahorse.Keys, some have a "raw-id"
> looking like "04E29C73", some like "B0894B0104E29C73:2". All of my tests
> seem to show that those of the first kind are able to encrypt, those of
> the second are not
> (org.freedesktop.DBus.GLib.UnmappedError.Org.gnome.seahorse.Error.Failed.Code1: Key is not a valid 
> recipient for encryption). But can I reliably establish that I can drop all keys with the "raw-id" longer 
> than 8 digits when asking the user for a key to encrypt? Or is there a better method to do this filtering?

Again, looks like a bug to me. It's hard to know how to answer this
question off hand. libcryptui and that DBus interface is really old and
not really in use anymore. But happy to help integrate patches if you do
find the bug.

Cheers,

Stef