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Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>>> Note however that gpgsm does not take a passphrase because private
>>> keys are entirely managed by the gpg-agent and thus gpg-agent will
>>> pop up a pinentry dialog as needed - gpg also support the
>>> gpg-agent. (There is a curses based pinentry available).
>>
>> Good.  It is probably a bad idea to force all applications to do its
>> own password handling, so having gpg-agent handle the password instead
>> of Gnus sounds better anyway.
>
> What would it do if you were running on a terminal?!?

Dunno.  Does gpg-agent support this?  If not, gpgsm.el have to supply
gpgsm with a password somehow.  Or you could store the private keys
unencrypted on disk...