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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: epg + pinentry + gnus
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:09:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fvfhm4vt.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oaudtvoa.fsf@sergiodj.net>

On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 00:11:17 -0400 Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@sergiodj.net> wrote: 

SDJ> But before I decide to go with the (defadvice) thing, I decided to ask
SDJ> here: do you guys have this same problem, and if so, how do you
SDJ> workaround it?

You can try dropping to GnuPG 1.x and caching a symmetric encryption
key. See `epa-file-cache-passphrase-for-symmetric-encryption'. It's not
great but works much better over SSH to remote hosts if you accept the
risk of storing the passphrase in Emacs' memory. In my work, it's
indispensable.

Documentation:

"If non-nil, cache passphrase for symmetric encryption.

For security reasons, this option is turned off by default and
not recommended to use.  Instead, consider using gpg-agent which
does the same job in a safer way.  See Info node `(epa) Caching
Passphrases' for more information.

Note that this option has no effect if you use GnuPG 2.0."

Ted




  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-09-24 15:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-18  4:11 Sergio Durigan Junior
2014-09-18 18:44 ` Peter Münster
2014-09-25  2:50   ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2014-10-03  6:31     ` W. Greenhouse
2014-09-24 15:09 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2014-09-25  2:51   ` Sergio Durigan Junior

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