summary: Better diagnostics on failure to load private key file class: wish: This is a request for an enhancement. difficulty: fun: Just needs tuits, and not many of them. priority: low: We aren't sure whether to fix this or not. fixed-in: 2003-08-30 2cde290c772881f1e7ce9ee5901fa13ab8882ffe (0.54)
Currently some failures to load private key files (PPK) result in
messages like "Couldn't load private key".
These are failures such as hash/MAC verification and format errors,
which seems wrong. A better error reporting channel would be nice.
(NB that hash/MAC verification errors will only be visible as such for
passphraseless keys, since for encrypted keys tampering is
indistinguishable from an incorrect passphrase.)
