From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Cc: Daiki Ueno <ueno@unixuser.org>
Subject: Re: "epa (Caching Passphrases)"
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 07:22:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y6abh5ob.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3mxqr3hz8.fsf_-_-ueno@unixuser.org>
On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:20:27 +0900 Daiki Ueno <ueno@unixuser.org> wrote:
DU> Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
>> The real problem was that I use GnuPG2, and with that, there's no way
>> to cache passwords on the lisp level. But when you set up the
>> gpg-agent properly (exactly as the docs state), then that will do the
>> caching so that you are only asked once per file (in a certain time
>> frame).
DU> I added some notes on (current) password caching mechanisms provided by
DU> GnuPG2 and EasyPG Assistant, in (info "(epa) Caching Passphrases").
DU> I think it would be nice to link to it from (info "(auth) Help for
DU> users"). Since current doc is confusing nowadays:
DU> ;;; VERY important if you want symmetric encryption
DU> ;;; irrelevant if you don't
DU> (setq epa-file-cache-passphrase-for-symmetric-encryption t)
Unfortunately Gnus is distributed alone as well, so a info link would
not work everywhere. Can you suggest a rewrite of that section in
addition to the link to help people in that situation?
Thanks
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-06 12:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-27 0:09 auth-sources: 8 password prompts for accessing one single imap server Tassilo Horn
2010-09-27 6:38 ` Vegard Vesterheim
2010-09-27 7:59 ` Drew Hess
2011-02-25 22:19 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-27 16:49 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-27 17:13 ` Vegard Vesterheim
2010-09-27 17:21 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-27 20:50 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-09-27 20:57 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-30 6:30 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-09-30 15:44 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-05 7:16 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-10-06 7:20 ` "epa (Caching Passphrases)" Daiki Ueno
2010-10-06 12:22 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2010-10-06 12:38 ` Daiki Ueno
2010-10-06 12:52 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-06 13:25 ` Daiki Ueno
2010-10-07 19:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-08 15:38 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-27 21:01 ` auth-sources: 8 password prompts for accessing one single imap server Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-27 21:42 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-09-28 7:25 ` Gijs Hillenius
2010-09-28 10:19 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-28 10:32 ` Gijs Hillenius
2010-09-28 12:04 ` Dave Goldberg
2010-09-28 13:10 ` Gijs Hillenius
2010-09-28 13:42 ` Gijs Hillenius
2010-09-27 16:54 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-27 18:37 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-27 18:48 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-27 18:52 ` Ted Zlatanov
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