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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: Fix needed for communication with gpg-agent
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The motive for using gpg-agent and pinentry is to avoid ever having
the passphrase inside Emacs.  Wouldn't communicating with pinentry as
an Emacs subprocess defeat the purpose?