The password for the private PGP key is wrong

[cavemanr]

Hello, I have noticed that passwords for PGP keys must not exceed a maximum length.

I have tried passwords with and without special characters with a length of 48 characters and with these I was able to decrypt my passwords.

passwords working:

xxfxgb9WC5NQGf0flw3BpLudsrlmKafehRmYVrj6KtO6JF9c

Ui<)jOR^(w(:<2~1gP|2R7*2hg&/HZXJJqL+}aXij01-`\$J

However, when I tried to use a password with 96 characters with and without special characters, I got the error message that my password for the PGP key was not correct.

passwords not working:

ec-v~UD8Hz`{qO<<("`4i%!_RxBB:tj0A(}@FzRc9OLFyEc<'KW(QSiJ3HC%d%C=ZS*{G^<$~9ecE:L#-{08]}<e_OFhp2u[

-dA;Js_>zvu{@1OhAYr1QyYg%o73u2nv%}W`,(Z&k/8LMj4}=`?0bpXFcA-V7eQP7GSQg],6Z,Afp#uG-22Ae-_`7OW!1[LV

It would be great if the documentation contained a hint about the maximum password length or removed the limitation for the maximum number of characters.

Translation: Password cannot be displayed The password for the private PGP key is wrong

[SimplyDanny]

I can actually not reproduce what you described. With a new key (gpg --full-generate-key with standard settings, i.e. RSA with length 2048) and the first of your lengthy passwords everything work as expected. Which kind of key did you use?

[cavemanr]

I’ve used a RSA 4096 Bit key. And on several iOS devices the password could not unlock the RSA Key.

[SimplyDanny]

Which version of the app do you use?

[cavemanr]

Which version of the app do you use?

I’m using 0.9.0 (21)

[SimplyDanny]

It works for me even with the "old" version. If you want I can have another try with a key pair and a password which do not work for you. Just attach them to the issue. And please tell which method you use to import the keys.

[dream-solitary]

It seems that this issue is not resolved till now (version 0.11)

[kode54]

My bad, it supports RSA4096, but I needed the subkey ID from GPG Keychain to do the export correctly.