Re: mml-secure: function doubled, passwd chache, use-my-public key

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> writes:

> On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 21:59:18 +0000, Uwe Brauer said:
>
>>     - all  the time  I  sign, encrypt or   decrypt I  am asked my
>>       password,  could  that be  cached  say  for  5  min  (as in
>>       mailcrypt)
>
> For several years I am now using gpg-agent to manage passphrases and
> caching.  The drawback with Gnus is that I still need to tweak the
> passphrase providing and caching mechanism because its is useless and
> actually dangerous to have when using gpg-agent.
>
> I'd really appreciate if someone could add an option to disable the
> passphrase stuff manually or automatically.

Does (setq pgg-cache-passphrase nil) help?  It appears to work here.

> Using gpg-agent is now pretty simple as it has made its way into
> Debian (apt-get install gnupg-agent).

rant:

latte:/home/jas# apt-get install gnupg-agent
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
gnupg-agent is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
latte:/home/jas#

Then why isn't used automatically?  To get it working I had to start
the daemon manually and add 'use-agent' to ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf.  Either
is hardly user friendly.  When I log on my Debian box, ssh-agent is
started and I didn't do anything to make it run.  Perhaps gpg-agent
can be started in a similar way.  And there seem to be some font bug
in the pinentry dialog window, presumably Unicode related.