[pass] Pass not accepting DSA Keys

[Santiago Borrazás]

Sorry, I just noticed that my keys were created using DSA (sign only),
which apparently it's not useful for encrypting.
I was using option 3:

Please select what kind of key you want:
   (1) RSA and RSA (default)
   (2) DSA and Elgamal
   (3) DSA (sign only)
   (4) RSA (sign only)

I created a key using option 2 and it worked fine.

Sorry for the false alarm/noise!

BTW, what about adding key creation to the docs?

Regards,
Santiago


On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 5:04 PM, Santiago Borrazás <sanbor at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello there,
>
> I created several DSA keys and none of them were working. I always got
> "gpg: 2048D/19XXXD3: skipped: No public key".
>
> After trial and error I discovered that pass *would only accept RSA keys*.
>
> I tried adding these DSA keys by their ids, like 'pass init 11223344'.
> Also, as I found in a blog post, I tried adding the key using the email,
> which unfortunately neither worked ('pass init sanbor at gmail.com').
>
> For anyone to reproduce this issue, just generate a DSA key using `gpg2
> --gen-key` and select DSA. Then do 'pass init KEYID'. Finally, try to
> create a new entry by running 'pass generate -c Facebook 16' and you will
> get the 'No public key' messages.
>
> Best regards,
> Santiago
>
>
>
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