From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Password prompt inside Emacs with epg-gpg-program -> "gpg2"?
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 19:56:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k2mfrpy2.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87y4av1209.fsf@joakim-desk.jockej.lan
Joakim Jalap <joakim.jalap@fastmail.com> writes:
> No, pinentry-emacs is a binary which can be built when building pinentry
> from source. It's been a long time since I dug into this, but I managaed
> to find what I found then :)
>
> If you clone the pinentry repo:
>
> git clone git://git.gupg.org/pinentry.git
>
> And run ./autogen.sh and the ./configure --help
>
> You will see the option --enable-pinentry-emacs. So that's what you
> should build with :)
>
> There's also the option --enable-inside-emacs, but I think this will be
> set by --enable-pinentry-emacs.
I see.
> > Do you mean I need to install this to be able to use pinentry.el (which,
> > I found out, already comes with Emacs 25)?
>
> Well, I guess. I don't really know, sorry. But I think you need some
> program for entering the password, and I guess this is the official way
> to do it. But the gnupg maintainers really don't seem to like it, which
> is why Arch and FreeBSD don't build it by default I guess.
Same on Debian obviously.
Is it bad to get "Emacs in contact with the password", do I lose
security (question to all)? The main advantage of pinentry seems to be
that it avoids to leave a password in the swap partition.
Is using pinentry via pinentry.el in Emacs similarly secure as using a
different pinentry dialog?
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-08 18:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-08 14:44 Password prompt inside Emacs with epg-gpg-program -> "gpg2"? Michael Heerdegen
2016-02-08 15:10 ` Teemu Likonen
2016-02-08 15:39 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-02-08 17:00 ` Joakim Jalap
2016-02-08 17:54 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-02-08 18:38 ` Joakim Jalap
2016-02-08 18:56 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2016-02-08 19:07 ` Joakim Jalap
2016-02-08 20:26 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-02-09 9:11 ` Joakim Jalap
2016-02-09 8:58 ` tomas
2016-02-09 1:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-09 3:23 ` Daiki Ueno
2016-02-09 3:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-09 7:02 ` Daiki Ueno
2016-02-09 22:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-09 9:54 ` Joakim Jalap
[not found] ` <mailman.4186.1455011693.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-02-10 13:47 ` Barry Fishman
2016-02-10 15:16 ` Joakim Jalap
2016-02-15 11:15 ` Lele Gaifax
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