From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: gpg 2.2 and epa
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2018 16:47:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <460fc2c7-e424-4b84-deb9-0fd169076e25@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1gTbK3-0008A3-37@fencepost.gnu.org>
Richard Stallman wrote:
> I tried installing gpg 2.2 some months ago, but Emacs master ceased to
> recognize when it was asking for a password. Has anyone had success
> with this?
Emacs master works for me on my Ubuntu 18.04.1 desktop, where "gpg --version"
reports gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.4 with libgcrypt 1.8.1.
Emacs master (like Emacs 26.1) delegates password handling to gpg2. That is,
Emacs itself isn't responsible for reading passphrases; gpg2 does it for Emacs.
On my desktop, when I am using Emacs and need a GPG passphrase, a window pops up
(I assume generated by the GPG agent), and the agent remembers the key.
If you want to continue to type the passphrase into Emacs, here is a relevant
20-message thread, dated 2016:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2016-02/msg00102.html
with the conclusion seeming to be "it's not worth the trouble".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-03 0:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-02 23:38 gpg 2.2 and epa Richard Stallman
2018-12-03 0:47 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2018-12-03 6:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-03 15:17 ` Filipp Gunbin
2018-12-31 16:21 ` Ted Zlatanov
2018-12-31 16:46 ` Teemu Likonen
2018-12-31 18:06 ` Ted Zlatanov
2019-01-17 19:48 ` Colin Baxter
2018-12-04 0:04 ` Richard Stallman
2018-12-03 0:54 ` Juri Linkov
2018-12-03 1:45 ` Óscar Fuentes
2018-12-04 0:05 ` Richard Stallman
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