From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/72692 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: "epa (Caching Passphrases)" Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 07:22:28 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87y6abh5ob.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87ocbkujwr.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <201009272250.59586.tassilo@member.fsf.org> <201009300830.41101.tassilo@member.fsf.org> <877hi38cdi.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87sk0lyurh.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286367802 5316 80.91.229.12 (6 Oct 2010 12:23:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 12:23:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Daiki Ueno To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M21063@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Oct 06 14:23:21 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P3T1k-0007f8-LK for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:23:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P3T17-0000bB-1O; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 07:22:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P3T15-0000av-NC for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 07:22:39 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P3T13-0005x7-Te for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 07:22:39 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P3T13-0000CC-00 for ; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:22:37 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P3T12-0007Sl-2y for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:22:36 +0200 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:22:36 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:22:36 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fPnOsYdkPS4jAa6yRWzkqMZy5B8= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:72692 Archived-At: On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:20:27 +0900 Daiki Ueno wrote: DU> Tassilo Horn 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