From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/17728 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user,gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Passphrase caching for GnuPG in Emacs? Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2015 08:47:42 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87vb9cwkef.fsf@informationelle-selbstbestimmung-im-internet.de> <20151109084539.GB12671@tuxteam.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447077032 26008 80.91.229.3 (9 Nov 2015 13:50:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 13:50:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 09 14:50:20 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@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 1Zvmps-0000Iu-NI for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 14:50:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52797 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zvmps-0000U2-7d for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 08:50:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58008) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zvmpq-0000Tw-LZ for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 08:50:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zvmpk-0008SR-Ez for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 08:50:14 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:35636) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zvmpk-0008RB-9q for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 08:50:08 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zvmpf-00006S-LN for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 14:50:03 +0100 Original-Received: from 184-175-11-171.dsl.teksavvy.com ([184.175.11.171]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 14:50:03 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 184-175-11-171.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 14:50:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 9 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 184-175-11-171.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1Z2juB/KuErVoIwYxejHWwsB0d4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:17728 gmane.emacs.help:108003 Archived-At: > 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