Re: Passphrase caching for GnuPG in Emacs?

[Jens Lechtenboerger]

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