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EasyPG selects revoked key, rather than the obvious current one as recipient on file save

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From: Beto HydroxyButyrate <beto <at> zepherin.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: EasyPG selects revoked key, rather than the obvious current one as
 recipient on file save
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 15:10:33 +1000

I have a test file named Test1.gpg with the following at the top:
;; -*- epa-file-encrypt-to: ("beto <at> zepherin.com") -*-

I write out the file. It throws this error:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Opening output file" "Encrypt
failed" "Unusable public key: 4253BDD3FF52DC13; Exit")
signal(file-error ("Opening output file" "Encrypt failed" "Unusable
public key: 4253BDD3FF52DC13; Exit"))
epa-file-write-region(nil nil "/home/user/Documents/Auth/Test1.gpg" nil
t "~/Documents/Auth/Test1.gpg" nil)
apply(epa-file-write-region (nil nil
"/home/user/Documents/Auth/Test1.gpg" nil t "~/Documents/Auth/Test1.gpg"
nil))
epa-file-handler(write-region nil nil
"/home/user/Documents/Auth/Test1.gpg" nil t "~/Documents/Auth/Test1.gpg"
nil)
write-region(nil nil "/home/user/Documents/Auth/Test1.gpg" nil t
"~/Documents/Auth/Test1.gpg")
basic-save-buffer-2()
basic-save-buffer-1()
basic-save-buffer(t)
save-buffer(1)
funcall-interactively(save-buffer 1)
call-interactively(save-buffer nil nil)
command-execute(save-buffer)

The problem is that EasyPG selects the revoked key. The solution is
*not* to delete the revoked key from my keyring. I need the revoked key
to be able to decode email previously sent encrypted using this revoked
key.
I did some googling and saw that there have been at least two other
reports of this issue, but someone hacked up a kluge specifically for
email, rather than fixing the general case.



In GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 1, x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.23.2)
of 2018-08-13 built on buildvm-13.phx2.fedoraproject.org
Windowing system distributor 'Fedora Project', version 11.0.12004000
System Description: Fedora release 29 (Twenty Nine)

Recent messages:
<<< Type SPC or RET to bury the buffer list >>>
Saving file /home/user/Documents/Auth/Test1.gpg...
epa-file-write-region: Opening output file: Encrypt failed, Unusable
public key: 4253BDD3FF52DC13; Exit
<<< Type SPC or RET to bury the buffer list >>>
Mark set
t [2 times]
<<< Type SPC or RET to bury the buffer list >>>
Saving file /home/user/Documents/Auth/Test1.gpg...
Entering debugger...
<<< Type SPC or RET to bury the buffer list >>>

Configured using:
'configure --build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
--host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix=
--disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr
--bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc
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--with-gpm=no --with-xwidgets --with-modules
build_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu host_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
'CFLAGS=-DMAIL_USE_LOCKF -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security
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-fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection'
LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=:/usr/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig'

Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND DBUS GSETTINGS NOTIFY ACL
LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB
TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 MODULES THREADS XWIDGETS LCMS2

Important settings:
value of $LANG: C.UTF-8
locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Debugger

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auto-encryption-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
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Load-path shadows:
None found.

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Message #10 received at 37229 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Beto HydroxyButyrate <beto <at> zepherin.com>
Cc: 37229 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37229: EasyPG selects revoked key, rather than the obvious
 current one as recipient on file save
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2021 08:36:58 +0100

Beto HydroxyButyrate <beto <at> zepherin.com> writes:

> I have a test file named Test1.gpg with the following at the top:
> ;; -*- epa-file-encrypt-to: ("beto <at> zepherin.com") -*-
>
> I write out the file. It throws this error:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Opening output file" "Encrypt
> failed" "Unusable public key: 4253BDD3FF52DC13; Exit")

This has recently been fixed in Emacs 28, so I'm closing this bug report.

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(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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