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Re: Stop emacs caching gpg keys


From: Colin Baxter
Subject: Re: Stop emacs caching gpg keys
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2021 16:06:45 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux)

>>>>> moasenwood--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
>>>>> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

    > Colin Baxter wrote:
    >> This is not so straightforward if I encrypt a file using
    >> emacs. On saving, and removing the buffer, a supposedly encrypted
    >> file can be opened without the need to enter a password. Of
    >> course, I can open a shell within emacs and run 'gpgconf --kill
    >> gpg-agent' in order to clear the cache.

    > What do you do to encrypt from Emacs?

I do everything in emacs - don't you :-). Seriously, my use of emacs is
to encrypt org files.

    >> But is there a simpler way - an elisp way - of achieving the same
    >> result?

    > There is always `shell-command', I guess...

Yes, but do you know of any elisp hook that I could use to call the
shell-command, say whenever I close a encrypted buffer?

Best wishes,



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