From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/17904 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jude DaShiell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help,gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Passphrase caching for GnuPG in Emacs? Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 13:16:23 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: References: <87vb9cwkef.fsf@informationelle-selbstbestimmung-im-internet.de> <87vb78ghm7.fsf@mithlond.arda> <87y4c46msx.fsf@informationelle-selbstbestimmung-im-internet.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1452017811 18851 80.91.229.3 (5 Jan 2016 18:16:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 18:16:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, info-gnus-english@gnu.org To: Jens Lechtenboerger , Teemu Likonen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 05 19:16:42 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aGW9y-0005NZ-7g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 19:16:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50898 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aGW9x-0007jI-BD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 13:16:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60928) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aGW9l-0007j2-EX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 13:16:30 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aGW9h-0006AT-CV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 13:16:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mailbackend.panix.com ([166.84.1.89]:65156) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aGW9h-0006AI-9b; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 13:16:25 -0500 Original-Received: from panix1.panix.com (panix1.panix.com [166.84.1.1]) by mailbackend.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBC9B17CEC; Tue, 5 Jan 2016 13:16:23 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by panix1.panix.com (Postfix, from userid 20712) id A7C0214B9A; Tue, 5 Jan 2016 13:16:23 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by panix1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A420814B7F; Tue, 5 Jan 2016 13:16:23 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87y4c46msx.fsf@informationelle-selbstbestimmung-im-internet.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (NEB 23 2013-08-11) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux (Android) X-Received-From: 166.84.1.89 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:108621 gmane.emacs.gnus.user:17904 Archived-At: packages that are smart enough can always use .netrc and source that for credentials and that has been around since ftp got created. On Tue, 5 Jan 2016, Jens Lechtenboerger wrote: > Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 10:58:06 > From: Jens Lechtenboerger > To: Teemu Likonen > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, info-gnus-english@gnu.org > Subject: Re: Passphrase caching for GnuPG in Emacs? > > On 2016-01-05, at 17:40, Teemu Likonen wrote: > >> Jens Lechtenboerger [2015-11-08 17:00:56+01] wrote: >> >>> I plan to refactor the code used for GnuPG in the Message mode of >>> Emacs (Gnus) and started a discussion on the Gnus devel mailing list >>> ding. An open issue is passphrase caching within Emacs, which might be >>> removed in the future. >> >> I'd like to move pretty much all password caching outside Emacs so I'm >> fine with such plans. Do your plans include mail-source-password-cache >> too? > > No, I was just referring to GnuPG passphrases. > >> For example, in my system Gnus's mail-sources variable is set to fetch >> mail from a server. The password is stored in ~/.authinfo.gpg but then >> stored in mail-source-password-cache variable: >> >> (("server:login:nil" . "password")) >> >> I'd like to get rid of that too. > > I wasn?t aware of this, and I don?t like that either. > > Best wishes > Jens > > --