From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson), Daiki Ueno <ueno@gnu.org>
Cc: 29906@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29906: 27.0.50; Emacs prompts for passwords in GUI dialog instead of minibuffer
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 20:02:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83po6wdrgm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wp14ky88.fsf@moondust.localdomain> (nljlistbox2@gmail.com)
> From: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson)
> Cc: 29906@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 10:54:31 -0500
>
> At 10:19 +0200 on Saturday 2017-12-30, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >
> > Does this NEWS.26 entry help?
> >
> > ** The pinentry.el library has been removed.
> > That package (and the corresponding change in GnuPG and pinentry)
> > was intended to provide a way to input passphrase through Emacs with
> > GnuPG 2.0. However, the change to support that was only implemented
> > in GnuPG >= 2.1 and didn't get backported to GnuPG 2.0. And with
> > GnuPG 2.1 and later, pinentry.el is not needed at all. So the
> > library was useless, and we removed it. GnuPG 2.0 is no longer
> > supported by the upstream project.
> >
> > To adapt to the change, you may need to set 'epa-pinentry-mode' to the
> > symbol 'loopback'.
>
> Yes, that does help, thank you. I should have checked the news.
>
> It doesn't help me decide what to do though. Do you know if using
> the prompt in the minibuffer (using `loopback') is thought to be
> less secure than using the external pinentry program?
I don't know enough about this to tell. Daiki, any inputs?
> > What version of GnuPG do you have on that system?
>
> Here `gpg' is GnuPG 1.4.22 and `gpg2' is GnuPG 2.2.3.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-30 18:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-30 2:11 bug#29906: 27.0.50; Emacs prompts for passwords in GUI dialog instead of minibuffer N. Jackson
2017-12-30 8:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-30 15:54 ` N. Jackson
2017-12-30 18:02 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-12-30 20:13 ` Daiki Ueno
2017-12-30 20:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-30 21:06 ` Daiki Ueno
2018-01-09 18:33 ` Glenn Morris
2018-01-15 21:11 ` Glenn Morris
2018-01-16 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-28 23:18 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-30 20:14 ` Stefan Kangas
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