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From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
To: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, info-gnus-english@gnu.org,
	Jens Lechtenboerger <jens.lechtenboerger@fsfe.org>
Subject: Re: Passphrase caching for GnuPG in Emacs?
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 21:06:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874mern8vy.fsf@mithlond.arda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.NEB.2.11.1601051315260.16965@panix1.panix.com> (Jude DaShiell's message of "Tue, 5 Jan 2016 13:16:23 -0500 (EST)")

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Jude DaShiell [2016-01-05 13:16:23-05] wrote:

> packages that are smart enough can always use .netrc and source that
> for credentials and that has been around since ftp got created.

But my point was that mail-source knows how to use secure
~/.authinfo.gpg storage. It reads the password from there and then
stores it to mail-source-password-cache variable as clear text and the
passwords never expire.

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      reply	other threads:[~2016-01-05 19:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-08 16:00 Jens Lechtenboerger
2015-11-09  8:45 ` tomas
2015-11-09 13:47   ` Stefan Monnier
2015-11-09 13:45     ` tomas
2015-11-09 13:55   ` Jens Lechtenboerger
2015-11-09 13:50     ` tomas
2015-11-11  8:15     ` Kevin Brubeck Unhammer
2015-11-12 16:43       ` Jens Lechtenboerger
2015-11-13  8:24         ` Kevin Brubeck Unhammer
2015-12-22 21:58           ` Greg Bell
2015-12-23 14:00             ` Peter Münster
2016-01-05 15:40 ` Teemu Likonen
2016-01-05 15:58   ` Jens Lechtenboerger
2016-01-05 18:16     ` Jude DaShiell
2016-01-05 19:06       ` Teemu Likonen [this message]

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