From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/66919 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rn_Mork?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Caching passphrases Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 15:02:48 +0200 Organization: Dose of Dukes Message-ID: <87y76m2rnr.fsf@obelix.mork.no> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210171945 10018 80.91.229.12 (7 May 2008 14:52:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 14:52:25 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M15397@lists.math.uh.edu Wed May 07 16:53:01 2008 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 4.50) id 1Jtl0K-0003Xo-SM for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 07 May 2008 16:52:25 +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 1Jtkz5-0001zd-SO; Wed, 07 May 2008 09:51:07 -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 1JtjId-0001QY-8Y for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 07 May 2008 08:03:11 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JtjIX-0002eo-Gq for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 07 May 2008 08:03:11 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1JtjIk-0001JY-00 for ; Wed, 07 May 2008 15:03:18 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JtjIU-0003AB-RB for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 07 May 2008 13:03:02 +0000 Original-Received: from 148.245.120.148.in-addr.arpa ([148.120.245.148]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 07 May 2008 13:03:02 +0000 Original-Received: from bmork by 148.245.120.148.in-addr.arpa with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 07 May 2008 13:03:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 148.245.120.148.in-addr.arpa User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:P0GtufMXGbJL810cEaF96LxseIA= X-Spam-Score: -1.1 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:66919 Archived-At: Norman Walsh writes: > I'm not sure if this is an EPG issue or a Gnus issue or soemthing else, > but I encounter it in gnus so... :-) > > Everytime I send mail, I'm asked for my passphrase in order to sign the > message. But I've noticed that if I have a couple of draft messages and > I send them in rapid succession, I'm not asked for the second message. > > This suggests that *someone* is remembering my passphrase for a few > seconds (or perhaps it suggests some deeper issue, I suppose). > > Anyway, I'd be perfectly content to trade a little security for a > little convenience. Is there any way I can tell EPG/Gnus to remember > my passphrase for some longer period of time? This is controlled by mml2015-passphrase-cache-expiry, which defaults to mml-secure-passphrase-cache-expiry, which defaults to password-cache-expiry which defaults to 16 So, by default your passphrase is cached for 16 seconds as you've noticed. Bjørn -- Only a lamer like you would say that the more bug fixes you have, the better