[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#787690: Bug#787690: pinentry-gtk2: always fails with "No passphrase given"

[brian m. carlson]

On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 07:59:22PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> Yikes, i can confirm this.  Thanks for the report.
> 
> Interestingly, if i paste a string of 34 characters into pinentry-gtk-2,
> it works fine.  It's only if i type them one at a time that the failure
> happens.
> 
> Temporary workaround while i sort this out with upstream:
> 
>   * you can try installing pinentry-gnome3, which will use the gcr
>     message prompting, or pinentry-qt4 if you prefer the qt toolkits.

I've found another temporary workaround, which is to #define MIN_SIZE to
32 in gtksecentry.c.  I think what's happening is that the code to
increase the buffer size is failing somewhere.  I thought I'd mention
that it solves the problem for me in case it's helpful for
troubleshooting.  It should work for 0 < len(passphrase) < 64.
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