From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: gpg 2.2 and epa Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2018 16:47:29 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <460fc2c7-e424-4b84-deb9-0fd169076e25@cs.ucla.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1543797975 17311 195.159.176.226 (3 Dec 2018 00:46:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 00:46:15 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 03 01:46:11 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gTcNG-0004Oz-UH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2018 01:46:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46288 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gTcPN-0004tN-9H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Dec 2018 19:48:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55093) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gTcOh-0004r7-78 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Dec 2018 19:47:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gTcOd-00046D-8j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Dec 2018 19:47:39 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:52902) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gTcOd-00045W-2m; Sun, 02 Dec 2018 19:47:35 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FA2E16009E; Sun, 2 Dec 2018 16:47:33 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id DtWrIiIDxs0p; Sun, 2 Dec 2018 16:47:32 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8834D160260; Sun, 2 Dec 2018 16:47:32 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id dRhW1ho1YlMJ; Sun, 2 Dec 2018 16:47:32 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (cpe-23-242-74-103.socal.res.rr.com [23.242.74.103]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 64E3816009E; Sun, 2 Dec 2018 16:47:32 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:231593 Archived-At: 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".