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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Passphrase caching for GnuPG in Emacs?
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2015 08:47:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmvuns2uw.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151109084539.GB12671@tuxteam.de>

> It seems there's a command-line pinentry these days.  From Emacs,
> my dream would be that it's Emacs which handles user interaction.

IIUC with a recent enough Emacs and recent enough GnuPG, Emacs will/can
indeed play the role of "pinentry agent" (so it provides the usual
Emacs UI, and along with that the usual Emacs insecurity of course).


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-09 13:47 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 [this message]
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

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