Re: Passphrase caching for GnuPG in Emacs?

[Jude DaShiell]

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 <jens.lechtenboerger@fsfe.org>
> To: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
> 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

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