From: Jens Schmidt <jschmidt4gnu@vodafonemail.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: epa.texi: Emacs and GnuPG pinentry
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2023 00:13:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4c2b40c1-2bd6-47cb-6d66-9addd90d7518@vodafonemail.de> (raw)
Hi.
I currently try to extend epa.texi based on my own experience with
GnuPG and Emacs setup. (Bug#64154 tracks that, but it does not contain
anything overly interesting so far.)
What puzzled me during my first-time setup were the different modes of
Emacs as GnuPG Pinentry. Basically you can have for GnuPG >= 2.1:
1. Use Emacs only for GnuPG requests that are triggered by Emacs itself
(aka loopback pinentry),
2. use Emacs for *all* GnuPG requests (also non-Emacs ones), or
3. use Emacs for all GnuPG requests with some other non-Emacs Pinentry
as fallback.
The latter two alternatives require pinentry.el, which was present in
Emacs core only in versions [25, ..., 27] (see
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-01/msg00233.html).
Plus they are not supported on Debian.
While some users may consider alternatives 2. and 3. desirable I'm not
sure whether I should describe their setup in detail in epa.texi. I
could just mention them and that "they are not recommended for use". Or
whatever.
WDYT?
next reply other threads:[~2023-07-04 22:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-04 22:13 Jens Schmidt [this message]
2023-07-06 0:15 ` epa.texi: Emacs and GnuPG pinentry Filipp Gunbin
2023-08-14 10:13 ` Björn Bidar
2023-08-14 20:10 ` Jens Schmidt
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