From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/72683 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daiki Ueno Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: "epa (Caching Passphrases)" Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:20:27 +0900 Message-ID: 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; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286349500 21307 80.91.229.12 (6 Oct 2010 07:18:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 07:18:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ted Zlatanov , ding@gnus.org To: Tassilo Horn Original-X-From: ding-owner+M21054@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Oct 06 09:18:16 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 1P3OGV-0001Ay-0h for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 09:18:15 +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 1P3OG1-0006vL-6B; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 02:17:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P3OFx-0006v1-Gz for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 02:17:41 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P3OFv-0004Zk-CB for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 02:17:40 -0500 Original-Received: from ivory4.scn-net.ne.jp ([219.117.176.192]) by quimby.gnus.org with smtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P3OFu-0004I1-00 for ; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 09:17:38 +0200 Original-Received: from ([192.168.0.187]) (envelope sender: ) by ivory4.scn-net.ne.jp with Active!Hunter esmtp server; Wed, 6 Oct 2010 16:17:34 +0900 Original-Received: Received: from well-done.deisui.org (g187018.scn-net.ne.jp [202.83.187.18]) (authenticated) by blue17.scn-net.ne.jp (unknown) with ESMTP id o967HW1M029321; Wed, 6 Oct 2010 16:17:33 +0900 In-Reply-To: <87sk0lyurh.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:16:18 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -0.9 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:72683 Archived-At: 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). I added some notes on (current) password caching mechanisms provided by GnuPG2 and EasyPG Assistant, in (info "(epa) Caching Passphrases"). I think it would be nice to link to it from (info "(auth) Help for users"). Since current doc is confusing nowadays: ;;; VERY important if you want symmetric encryption ;;; irrelevant if you don't (setq epa-file-cache-passphrase-for-symmetric-encryption t) Regards, -- Daiki Ueno