A wrong passphrase gives an error that says so (closes #157)
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A passphrase that did not decrypt the passphrase unlocker failed with age's
"no identity matched any of the recipients" and advice to give the vault a
new unlocker from its mnemonic, which would replace an unlocker that works.
GetIdentity now turns that age error into "wrong passphrase for unlocker
<id>", wrapping the new secret.ErrWrongPassphrase, and withMnemonicAdvice
leaves it alone, as it does when no passphrase was read. A passphrase from
SB_UNLOCK_PASSPHRASE and a typed one both reach this code. A priv.age that
is not an age file keeps the advice.

Judgement call: age cannot tell a wrong passphrase from a damaged key inside
a priv.age whose header reads, so that case now reads as a wrong passphrase.

Model: opus-5-5
This commit was merged in pull request #171.
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@@ -291,10 +291,13 @@ func (v *Vault) unlockLongTermKey(
// without a mnemonic records none, and without its metadata the key cannot
// be derived. It is not added when the passphrase could not be read: the
// unlocker was not tried, and adding one would need a passphrase read the
// same way. Nor is it added when the current unlocker does not exist and the
// vault has others: the error already says to select one of them.
// same way. Nor is it added when the passphrase is wrong: the unlocker still
// opens the vault with the right one. Nor is it added when the current
// unlocker does not exist and the vault has others: the error already says
// to select one of them.
func (v *Vault) withMnemonicAdvice(err error) error {
if errors.Is(err, secret.ErrPassphraseNotRead) ||
errors.Is(err, secret.ErrWrongPassphrase) ||
errors.Is(err, ErrUnlockerNotFound) {
return err
}