Bug #17183: Seahorse fails to import PGP public key

Bug #17183

Seahorse fails to import PGP public key

Added by goupille 2019-10-24 11:42:59 . Updated 2020-05-06 18:00:40 .

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Confirmed

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Low

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100%

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Research

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Description

several users reported that since the upgrade to tails 4, they are not able to import PGP public keys anymore from seahorse.

Upstream bug reports:

but nobody seems to work on it there.

importing the key from a terminal with gpg --import should work

Files

0001-Document-how-to-import-OpenPGP-public-keys-on-the-co.patch (4704 B)	sajolida, 2020-03-26 17:58:54
output.pdf (131436 B)	sajolida, 2020-03-26 18:06:14

Subtasks

Related issues

Related to Tails - Feature #16531: Define our core code base	In Progress	2019-03-05
Related to Tails - Bug #6568: Mention Seahorse in documentation	Confirmed	2014-01-05
Blocks Tails - Feature #17247: Core work 2020Q1 → 2020Q2: Technical writing	Confirmed

History

#1 Updated by goupille 2019-10-24 12:12:57

Bug report: 7a12aedbdd918176d7ccb1a3d5b044c6
Bug report: 3f29c3821f92b1e4b3c0b1254bcad83
Bug report: c411a6718a435e7c42ab17b31071dfb0

#2 Updated by goupille 2019-10-26 11:29:33

Bug report: fac29e2f193a2e2ed2365587931376f3

#3 Updated by intrigeri 2019-10-31 11:42:46

related to Feature #16531: Define our core code base added

#4 Updated by intrigeri 2019-10-31 11:43:31

Assignee deleted (~~intrigeri~~)

#5 Updated by intrigeri 2019-10-31 11:43:56

Ouch!

I see that many users are affected.

I’d like us to decide on Feature #16531 what OpenPGP use cases we want (and realistically can) support.

#6 Updated by numbat 2019-11-07 11:29:00

A user has reported that modifying key details has issues as well, I’m not sure if this is related to this issue. Let me know if I should open a new ticket.

#7 Updated by intrigeri 2019-11-10 15:40:11

Hi @numbat,

> A user has reported that modifying key details has issues as well, I’m not sure if this is related to this issue. Let me know if I should open a new ticket.

This seems to be a different problem. At this point we don’t know if they share a single root cause, so yeah, let’s track them separately.

#8 Updated by numbat 2019-11-11 10:19:23

Hello @intrigeri, thanks. I opened a new ticket Bug #17223

#9 Updated by numbat 2019-11-12 10:41:29

A user claims that they were able to import their private PGP key. It doesn’t show up in the list but it is there and can be used.

Bug report: f2d8be746dd1784778124581e4639104

#10 Updated by goupille 2020-01-14 16:51:03

Assignee set to sajolida

@sajolida, a lot of users are reporting this problem, nobody seems to work on that there, so it may be a good idea to add it to the known issues list, with a more thoroughly workaround documentation for people unfamiliar with command line ?

#11 Updated by emmapeel 2020-01-20 10:33:38

goupille wrote:
> @sajolida, a lot of users are reporting this problem, nobody seems to work on that there, so it may be a good idea to add it to the known issues list, with a more thoroughly workaround documentation for people unfamiliar with command line ?

yes please. also https://www.reddit.com/r/tails/comments/ep13c4/_/feo518d/

Our template goes like:

I think that you are affected by this bug :

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/seahorse/issues/236

We have this ticket on our own bugtracker to see what we can do on our side :

https://redmine.tails.boum.org/code/issues/17183

In the mean time you should be able to import you keys from a terminal :

Applications>Favorites>Terminal 

type the following command (with a space at the end and without pressing 'enter') :

gpg --import

Drag and drop the key file in the terminal and press enter.