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Re: Passphrase caching for GnuPG in Emacs?


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Passphrase caching for GnuPG in Emacs?
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2015 08:47:42 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> 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




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