generating key with 255 char password fails with error message
Reported by steve | December 15th, 2017 @ 07:13 PM | in 1.4.2 (closed)
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Generate new key failed! (Too much data for IPC layer)
Code = 273
Error text:
gpg: agent_genkey failed: Too much data for IPC layer
gpg: key generation failed: Too much data for IPC layer
This is due to the fact, that the password included german umlaute. They need 2 characters to represent one umlaut, thus the max length is only 127. We have to find a better way to deal with this directly in GPG Keychain and pinentry.
100% reproducible on macOS 10.13.2 GPG Suite 2017.3 test build.
Comments and changes to this ticket
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Support December 20th, 2017 @ 10:57 AM
- State changed from “new” to “fixed”
- Assigned user set to “Mento”
(from [128637ef7baaca554635f627d110dad2310d7ff4]) [FIX] "Too much data for IPC layer" error.
Count bytes instead of charaters.
[#437 state:fixed assigned:mento milestone:1.4.3] https://github.com/GPGTools/GPGKeychainAccess/commit/128637ef7baaca... -
steve December 21st, 2017 @ 12:01 PM
- State changed from “fixed” to “verified”
- Milestone set to “1.4.2”
2017.3 test build + 10.13.2 verified. for a pw of 255 which includes german umlaute the error about the pw being too long is shown.
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steve December 22nd, 2017 @ 10:09 PM
- State changed from “verified” to “released”
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Luke Le
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