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gnupg-agent: "mangles passphrases" should be grave (data loss, fixed upstream)



tags 578358 +upstream,fixed-upstream
severity 578358 grave
thanks

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 09:18:57AM +0000, Sascha Silbe wrote:

> Keys created / imported / having passphrase changed with gpg-agent
> 2.0.14 cannot be decrypted (and thus used), preventing all gpg
> operations. This has been fixed upstream in 2.0.15:

> Keys that are already mangled are unreadable even by 2.0.15

IMHO this means this bug is of "grave" severity, because this is in
effect data loss. Not only of the key, but of any data encrypted with
it!

-- 
Lionel


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