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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Anyway, what was the conclusion to the double-pass-phrasing when
> sending?  If it's only a matter of caching the pass phrase during a
> `C-c C-c', that function could just bind a variable
> `message-pass-phrase' and use that when it's non-nil.  (The idea
> being that when the function passes out of the scope, the variable
> becomes unbound again, thereby being kinda difficult to snoop.)

I believe the conclusion was that the OpenPGP implementation should be
invoked twice, however the passphrase should be cached.  There _is_
already a passphrase cache, so it is only a Small Matter Of Debugging.