From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: caching of passphrases for symmetrically encrypted files Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 09:02:57 +0300 Message-ID: <83funvzf5a.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1476658125.3072.26.camel@mailup.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1476684239 2592 195.159.176.226 (17 Oct 2016 06:03:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 06:03:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 17 08:03:54 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1bw11G-0006GQ-Pl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2016 08:03:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59152 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bw11I-0000br-Rm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2016 02:03:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57964) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bw10o-0000ba-Nw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2016 02:03:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bw10l-0001H5-Fl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2016 02:03:02 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:38786) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bw10l-0001Gz-CI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2016 02:02:59 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3234 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bw10j-000094-Dp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2016 02:02:58 -0400 In-reply-to: <1476658125.3072.26.camel@mailup.net> (message from Jim Gomi on Sun, 16 Oct 2016 17:48:45 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:111542 Archived-At: > From: Jim Gomi > 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