Re: ‘guix authenticate’: Throw to key `gcry-error' with args `(536871113)'.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Nikita Karetnikov <address@hidden> skribis:

> The keypair was created this way:
>
> $ openssl genrsa -out ./cache-key.sec 2048
> $ openssl rsa -in ./cache-key.sec -pubout > ./cache-key.pub
>
> All the tests pass.  What’s wrong?
>
> $ guix authenticate rsautl -sign -inkey cache-key.sec -in 
> 3r2n9zm3kxb28klpzgarjxj8x3y3y6wf.narinfo.hash

[...]

> In guix/scripts/authenticate.scm:
>   60: 1 [guix-authenticate "rsautl" "-sign" ...]
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>  793: 0 [call-with-input-file "cache-key.sec" ...]
>
> ice-9/boot-9.scm:793:17: In procedure call-with-input-file:
> ice-9/boot-9.scm:793:17: Throw to key `gcry-error' with args `(536871113)'.

‘guix authenticate’ expects cache-key.sec to be a key in “canonical
sexp” format, like in tests/signing-key.sec.  That’s why it barfs here.

IOW, the idea is that it’s a drop-in replacement for ‘openssl’ in terms
of command-line handling, but what happens behind is very different (see
<https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2013-12/msg00135.html>
and related messages.)

(The command-line compatibility requirement stems from the fact that for
now I want to avoid Guix-specific modifications to the daemon.)

HTH,
Ludo’.