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jorgelbg / pinentry-touchid

Custom GPG pinentry program for macOS that allows using Touch ID for fetching the password from the macOS keychain.
Apache License 2.0
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Exporting key error #25

Open allenzhao opened 2 years ago

allenzhao commented 2 years ago

I was trying to export my keys and found that it's not possible in the command line using gpg --armor --export-secret-keys

I end up using something like this:

echo mypassphrase | gpg --output private_keys.backup --armor --export-secret-keys --passphrase-fd 0 --pinentry-mode loopback

Is this expected?

jorgelbg commented 2 years ago

I don't think that we currently support this use case. From a quick overview it seems that we would need to skip all the touchid integration (since you are directly providing the passphrase). I will try to take a closer look and see if we can automatically fallback to pinentry-mac in this case.