Unwanted private key revocation

Bug #448640 reported by Michael Düll
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
seahorse
Expired
Medium
seahorse (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: seahorse

When double-clicking on a revocation certificate of a private key (saved to disk in case the private key is not save anymore / one forgets the key's password), seahorse will automatically revoke that private key without first asking: Are you sure.
I today accidentially revoked my main PGP key that way. This should not happen. Seahorse should as first!

Steps to reproduce:

1) Create a new gpg key. (Lets say it's AABBCCDD)
2) gpg --gen-revoke AABBCCDD
3) copy the revocation certificate to a text file (revk_cert_AABBCCDD.txt) so that it looks like:

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: A revocation certificate should follow

foObArfOofoObArfOofoObArfOofoObArfOofoObArfOofoObArfOofoObArfOofoObArfOofoObArfOo
foObArfOofoObArfOofoObArfOofoObArfOofoObArfOofoObArfOo/d
=FooBa
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

4) Have seahorse-plugins installed
5) Accidentially double-click on revk_cert_AABBCCDD.txt
6) Your key is gone!

This should not happen. Between 5) and 6) there should be a confirmation dialog.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Oct 11 13:50:44 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/seahorse
Package: seahorse 2.28.0-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-13.43-generic
SourcePackage: seahorse
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13-generic x86_64

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Michael Düll (akurei) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

Changed in seahorse (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
importance: Undecided → Low
Revision history for this message
Michael Düll (akurei) wrote :

Bug already reported (upstream?) in GNOME Bugzilla:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592526

Thanks a lot =)

Changed in seahorse (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
Changed in seahorse:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Changed in seahorse:
status: Confirmed → Expired
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