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PGP - one key is used for all accounts
 
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I have three accounts (not identities) that I want to create three seperate PGP keypairs for, using the internal implementation. The key pair I generate for the first account displays in bold at the top of the key manager. The next two I create are not in bold.

Whichever account I'm trying to use and 'PGP sign', I am only ever offered to input the passphrase for the first, bolded keypair. TB never gives me an opportunity to use the other two keypairs. I've spent hours looking at this and can't see the misconfiguration anywhere. Is it a bug?

I realise that I can go into key manager, select the key I want to use, choose 'set as default', and then use it to sign the mail, but surely that can't be the way it is supposed to work? All I want to do is quickly choose which keypair to use from a list, or even better... link a keypair with an account so that TB intelligently chooses the keypair depending on the account I'm sending from.

Also, 'sign block' doesn't seem to work (I've tried highlighting text). If this is the ability to sign only a portion of text in an email, I'd be very, very interested to get that working!!

Cheers.
 
 
 
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Still have a problem with this, if anyone has
an idea about it.

Thanks.
 
 
 
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I can use multiple keysforone account, so I can't imagine that you're being limited to one key. The  key-pair is selected automatically by matching the From address

Sign block is used to sign a slected part of an email, works fine over here.
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> so I can't imagine that you're being limited to one key

I'd start imagining harder!! lol.

When I click 'send to outbox', a pop-up displays titled 'openPGP Pass Phrase Input'. Below that is reads 'Input OpenPGP key pass phrase for myname <myEmail@mydomain.com>'. It ALWAYS chooses the default key, no matter which account I'm using. And there is no way in that pop-up to change the key.

Please help further if you can.
 
 
 
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In that case you're getting not the same pop-up as I'm getting.
My pop-up is called 'PGP' and apart from offering me a field to insert my passphrase, it also offers me a pull down menu to select a different key.
Do you see all of your keypairs when you open your key manager from TB?
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Yes, I see my keypairs. The default one is always in
bold. They work fine; the only problem is that I can't
choose which one to sign an email with.

OK, at least I know that it is supposed to work.
That helps. I'll keep working at the problem.
Cheers.
 
 
 
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Whether it is important I don't know, but I haven't got a default key-pair, though setting one as default didn't change anything in TB's behaviour.
What bothered me more is that I had to create a new pair, set that as default and delete it in order to return to my 'no default' state.
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> I haven't got a default key-pair, though setting one
> as default didn't change anything in TB's behaviour.

The first key I create becomes the default
(ie. highlighted in black).

> I had to create a new pair, set that as default and
> delete it in order to return to my 'no default'
> state.

I tried that, but when I delete the 'fake' key, one
of the other keys becomes default again automatically.

May I ask what verison of The Bat you are using?
Also, are you using GnuPGP, or the internal implementation?

Cheers.
 
 
 
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I'm using TB 3.85.3, but that isn't really important as I started working with PGP during the last v2 betas.
And I'm using neither the internal implementation nor GPG, but I'm using PGP 8.1
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Hmmm... I did have PGP 8.1 installed, but it is such a
large, bloated program and it always runs as a service
in the background, even if you only actually use it
once in a blue moon.

I tried GnuPG today, with an add-on key manager, but
the behaviour is the same. Even though this time there
is no default key, I get exactly the same pop-up
asking for a pass phrase, which doesn't allow you to
choose which key to use.

Any other ideas welcome.
 
 
 
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OK! It's started working with GnuPG + WinPT keymanager, although I don't know why.

All I did was keep creating two new keys at a time, trying them, and deleting them when it didn't work. When I had done this about fifteen times (I'm a very patient person), it suddenly started working for no apparent reason. I don't have a choice of keys from a dropdown list as you described Roelof, but it chooses the correct key based on the email address in the 'from' field, which is good enough for me!

Thanks for all your input.
If I ever discover why it didn't work or why it started to work, I'll report back.
 
 
 
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