Bug 2441760

Summary:	possible regression in 1.12.0 - causes gnupg failures
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Fabio Valentini <decathorpe>
Component:	libgcrypt	Assignee:	Jakub Jelen <jjelen>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	crypto-team, jjelen, neal, tm
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Description Fabio Valentini 2026-02-22 15:12:02 UTC

It appears that libgcrypt 1.12.0 contains bugs / issues that break some GnuPG operations.

For example, the sequoia-git test suite started to fail since the update to libgcrypt 1.12.0 with errors like

gpg: key D89307BF217283E5/0CADEFD4111E53BB: error sending to agent: Bad secret key
gpg: error reading '[stdin]': Bad secret key
gpg: import from '[stdin]' failed: Bad secret key

There's also a very similar report against Alpine Linux which also updated to 1.12.0 recently:
https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/17973


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 neal 2026-02-22 15:24:05 UTC

Note: downgrading libgcrypt to 1.11.2 fixes the issue on Alpine, as I just added to that issue.

Comment 2 Jakub Jelen 2026-02-23 08:46:36 UTC

I clicked through the bugs to the upstream tracker and sounds like this should be fixed with the libgcrypt 1.12.1 (bug #2435259) so updating to that.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2026-02-23 09:41:32 UTC

FEDORA-2026-cf49c531e3 (libgcrypt-1.12.1-1.fc44) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 44.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-cf49c531e3

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2026-02-24 01:15:04 UTC

FEDORA-2026-cf49c531e3 has been pushed to the Fedora 44 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-cf49c531e3`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-cf49c531e3

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2026-03-11 00:15:17 UTC

FEDORA-2026-cf49c531e3 (libgcrypt-1.12.1-1.fc44) has been pushed to the Fedora 44 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.