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Fake Pinentries for Test Suites
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If you're writing a test suite, it should use one of these pinentries
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by setting the following line in $GNUPGHOME/gpg-agent.conf:
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pinentry-program /path/to/fake-pinentry.ext
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Note that different fake-pinentry programs have been supplied here in
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different languages, with the intent of making them available to
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developers who have different languages available.
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They are all licensed Creative Commons Zero (CC0-1.0-Universal, see
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the COPYING.CC0 file in GnuPG's top directory), so they should be
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reusable by any project. Feel free to copy them into your own
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project's test suite.
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Rationale
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If you're implementing software that uses GnuPG, you probably want a
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test suite that exercises your code, and you may have some that
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involve secret key material locked with a passphrase. However, you
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don't want to require your developers to manually enter a passphrase
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while tests are run, and you probably also don't want to deal with
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alternate codepaths/workflows like using gpg's loopback pinentry.
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The solution for this is to use a fake pinentry in your test suite,
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one that simply returns a pre-selected passphrase. In this case, all
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the other code follows the same path as normal, but the user
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interaction is bypassed because the fake-pinentry is used instead.
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Troubleshooting
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---------------
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If you have any trouble with this technique, please drop a line to the
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GnuPG development mailing list <gnupg-devel@gnupg.org> or open a
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report on the GnuPG bug tracker at https://bugs.gnupg.org/gnupg
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