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Uwe Kaminski (jukey) wrote :

This bug was also reported to the Bugtracker of the Enigmail Project: http://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/bugs/540/
As it seems to be related to Ubuntu I open this bug here:

I am running a freshly installed Ubuntu 15.10 using GnuPG 2.0.28 and Thunderbird 38.3.0 using Enigmail 1.8.2.

All operations that access the gpg-agent seem to run into a timeout and for this reason they are very slow. This means that signing, decrypting, encrypting take additional ~25 seconds in order to be performed.

One specific example:

1. There is an encrypted email in my inbox and I select these email.
 2. The message body is shown as encrypted text block
    I am waiting ~ 25 seconds
    I am asked to enter the password for the key used to decrypt the message
    Entering the password
    The message is shown in plain text.

This behaviour is exactely the same if I jump to another unencrypted email in my inbox and afterwards back to the encrypted one.

There seems to be a timeout with the gpg-agent because the Enigmail log says for the example above:

Initializing Enigmail service ...
EnigmailAgentPath=/usr/bin/gpg2

enigmail> /usr/bin/gpg2 --version --version --batch --no-tty --charset utf-8 --display-charset utf-8
gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.28
libgcrypt 1.6.3
Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Home: ~/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, RSA, RSA, ELG, DSA
Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH,
        CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2

enigmail> /usr/bin/gpg2 --charset utf-8 --display-charset utf-8 --batch --no-tty --status-fd 2 --max-output 319000 --decrypt --use-agent
enigmail> /usr/bin/gpg2 --charset utf-8 --display-charset utf-8 --batch --no-tty --status-fd 2 --fixed-list-mode --with-colons --list-keys ABCDEFGHIJK12345