From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: caching of passphrases for symmetrically encrypted files
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 09:02:57 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83funvzf5a.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1476658125.3072.26.camel@mailup.net> (message from Jim Gomi on Sun, 16 Oct 2016 17:48:45 -0500)
> From: Jim Gomi <gomi@mailup.net>
> Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 17:48:45 -0500
>
>
> Since I upgraded to emacs 25.1.1 under Fedora 24, the caching of
> passphrases for symmetrically encrypted files has stopped working.
>
> According to the documentation,
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/epa.html#Caching-Pa
> ssphrases
> I can either use GnuPG 1.4, or configure gpg-agent. But I cannot get
> either of these to work.
>
> 1) Using GnuPG 2.1.13
> I tried adding this to ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf:
>
> allow-emacs-pinentry
>
> but I am still asked to retype the passphrase twice when saving the
> file.
> Is there something else I should do?
See
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-11/msg00421.html
for how to do this with GnuPG 2.x.
> 2) Using GnuPG 1.4
> I tried adding this to my .emacs file:
>
> (setq epg-gpg-program "/usr/bin/gpg")
> (setenv "GPG_AGENT_INFO" nil)
> (setq epa-file-cache-passphrase-for-symmetric-encryption t)
>
> but it had no effect.
> /usr/bin/gpg is the GnuPG 1.4 executable.
AFAIU, you are customizing epg-gpg-program incorrectly. See
bug#24229:
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=24229
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-17 6:02 UTC|newest]
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2016-10-16 22:48 caching of passphrases for symmetrically encrypted files Jim Gomi
2016-10-17 6:02 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-10-18 13:13 ` Jim Gomi
2016-10-18 14:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
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