From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/17742 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Brubeck Unhammer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Passphrase caching for GnuPG in Emacs? 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X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:17742 Archived-At: --===============5451471101012146271== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Jens Lechtenboerger writes: [...] > If I use the option > pinentry-program /usr/local/bin/pinentry-curses > in gpg-agent.conf and start Emacs within a terminal (option -nw), > then the passphrase needs to be entered within the terminal window, > whose contents get replaced by pinentry-curses while entering the > passphrase. Would that be good enough for you? Because of the pinentry issues in gpg2, I have so far kept gpg1 installed as well, and used that instead of agent/pinentry-gtk iff I'm in a text terminal. If I'm being graphical, I don't mind the gtk entry, since it 1) works and 2) caches things, presumably securely. (defadvice epg--start (around advice-epg-disable-agent activate) "Don't allow epg--start to use gpg-agent in plain text terminals." (if (display-graphic-p) ad-do-it (let ((agent (getenv "GPG_AGENT_INFO"))) (setenv "GPG_AGENT_INFO" nil) ; give us a usable text password prompt ad-do-it (setenv "GPG_AGENT_INFO" agent)))) (defadvice epg-make-context (around advice-epg-gpg1 activate) "Don't allow epg-make-context to use gpg2 in plain text terminals." (if (display-graphic-p) ad-do-it (let ((gpg epg-gpg-program)) (setq epg-gpg-program "/usr/bin/gpg1") ad-do-it (setq epg-gpg-program gpg)))) Can the pinentry-program setting be changed on-the-fly so I can say "give me the gtk one" or "give me the curses one" depending on (display-graphic-p) ? Also, AFAIK, I don't use any of the mm-cache-variables. =2D-=20 Kevin Brubeck Unhammer GPG: 0x766AC60C --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJWQvkOAAoJEHQmBt52asYMiwsIAO0ozW/RP4i/IiNKUBmINU+Y hjLNNqL1B1T+Fxn3rr1Vl3KpZc97FDJUCK4cphESGFCIV+rL1fKO6XHCRUCl3jRu 9gM1vrE3EtWd38/VmOhupZemeGVWIZhR/VGgnEzHyL+iMHGI/jGKr1XECKKEMQ8n pCIRmH5jrkZYMDXeH43Lo+K13+qyVM8etrB0THE97G4QUAmQ8V4pHXdYUHUg4avy M+KwoLzHAViVhT6QWIXwMhq31R+a+aTX+IYeDq0S0s+33nsvFHGicyDRQdjzM8hB e377r0IMzncSyMaGjaVY/OeYElO9+aOyFt0fe+AxsN2g9zRj24iNmPrEh9hYNME= =ngqy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=-- --===============5451471101012146271== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline