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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Mark Karpov <markkarpov@openmailbox.org>
Cc: 20982@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20982: 25.0.50; GPG uses GUI dialog box to ask for passphrase
Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2015 15:25:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvio9zn2w0.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oajresal.fsf@openmailbox.org> (Mark Karpov's message of "Sat,  04 Jul 2015 23:39:14 +0600")

> Now, I don't know if it's possible, it's probably GPG-side thing, but
> could it be done in minibuffer (like sudo in shell and Emacs shell),
> then somehow passed to GPG?

It's probably possible, but FWIW, it's indeed done GPG-side (actually
from gpg-agent, IIUC) and it has security advantages, in that the
password never goes through Emacs at all (and gpg-agent is, by nature,
written in a more security-conscious way than Emacs).


        Stefan





  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-04 19:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-04 17:39 bug#20982: 25.0.50; GPG uses GUI dialog box to ask for passphrase Mark Karpov
2015-07-04 19:25 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2015-07-05 21:56 ` Richard Stallman
2015-07-06  4:43   ` Daiki Ueno
2015-07-06  9:20     ` Mark Karpov
2015-07-06 10:57       ` Daiki Ueno
2015-07-27  2:32         ` Daiki Ueno
2015-07-06 14:58     ` Richard Stallman

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