[rt-users] Decrypting messages with GPG

Ruslan Zakirov ruz at bestpractical.com
Sun Jun 16 08:37:18 EDT 2013


On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 4:00 AM, o <oday at securingchange.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2013-06-13 at 13:18 +0400, Ruslan Zakirov wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 2:30 AM, Oliver Day <oday at securingchange.org>
> > wrote:
> >         I haven't found documentation that explains how to cache
> >         passwords that will allow mailgate to decrypt messages sent to
> >         RT. I've set the home directory to the default location and
> >         imported the appropriate keys. So I'm able to encrypt a
> >         message to a user and I'm able to decrypt that message and
> >         respond. But in the ticket itself the response I send back is
> >         displayed as "Message body not shown because it is not plain
> >         text." with a MIME type of "application/pgp-encrypted".
> >
> >
> >         I know about gpg-agent and I've even gone as far as launching
> >         gpg-agent as the user www-data (the user my webserver uses)
> >         but I'm unsure how to cache the keys into gpg-agent. Or is
> >         this approach completely wrong?
> >
> >
> > You don't need gpg decryption in UI unless you're using encrypt
> > attachments in DB option. Can you tell more about your problem? At
> > least URL where you see encrypted content.
>
>
>
> Hi Ruslan,
>
> I will have sensitive information in the tickets I'll create so I'd like
> to encrypt the contents of the ticket. I created a test ticket, selected
> myself as the owner and selected "encrypt" in the options to encrypt it
> to my gpg key. An email was sent to me from the queue and I was able to
> decrypt the message, reply, and encrypt the response to the queue's
> public key. When I look at the history of the ticket
> (e.g. /rt/Ticket/History.html?id=31) the messages are encrypted and I'm
> unable to see the contents and the error messages are described in my
> previous email and in the screenshot attached.
>
> Is there documentation on how to enable encrypting the attachments in
> the DB? That sounds like an option I'd like as well.
>


What you see is totally unexpected. RT should just show decrypted content
in UI. You should check logs for errors/warnings. May be enable debug
logging,
run a few tests and send us logs.



>
> Oliver
>



-- 
Best regards, Ruslan.
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