While I was able to find documentation of this error elsewhere, nobody expressly answered the question of “how do you fix this on a Mac without stepping outside the Homebrew ecosystem?” After some digging, I found the problem. The Enigmail setup wizard successfully generated keys, but failed at the next step with: “The revocation certificate could not be created.” Revocation certificates are important, so this was a serious obstacle. If you install GPG via homebrew or other. This ensures a valid configuration that works well with Tower.
Reboot the Mac if gpg -card-status cannot detect. Homebrew is smart about where it puts packages, and Enigmail is smart about where it looks for them, so this would be a seamless install (cue foreboding music). We recommend installing GPG Tools from its website. Set Up Yubikey Install Homebrew Install GnuPG brew install gnupg pinentry-mac Restore the. You can get it from the GPG Suite official installer, but I use Homebrew to install new packages whenever possible, to keep things centralized and streamline updates. This section provides instructions to install GPG on Windows and Mac. I run macOS 10.11 El Capitan, and I decided to install Enigmail, a simple PGP plugin for Thunderbird, to try it out.Įnigmail requires an existing installation of GnuPG. Workflow leverages GnuPrivacy Guard (GnuPG) to encrypt files and securely transfer. I’ve recently become interested in using PGP for secure email communications.
I had almost none before starting, so if you follow the links I provide and spend a little while reading, you’ll be just as qualified to start hacking on this as I was. NB: this post assumes a basic familiarity with PGP. Engimail, gnupg & pinentry on Mac OS X using Homebrew
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