Re: Saving gpg password on the file itself

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Thu, 7 May 2015 10:26:43 +0100 Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com> wrote: 

AM> I don't want to setup a whole encryption keychain (or whatever that
AM> stuff is called) on my system, I'm fine with typing the password once
AM> when I open the file. The only thing that bothers me, is typing it
AM> twice every time I save.

It's simple: look at
`epa-file-cache-passphrase-for-symmetric-encryption'.  I use it in many
situations where the GnuPG agent is not available.  Just don't select a
key when you initially encrypt the .gpg file and EPA will know you mean
to use symmetric encryption.  Then you enter the passphrase once and
Emacs remembers it for the whole session.

Ted

Documentation:
If non-nil, cache passphrase for symmetric encryption.

For security reasons, this option is turned off by default and
not recommended to use.  Instead, consider using gpg-agent which
does the same job in a safer way.  See Info node `(epa) Caching
Passphrases' for more information.

Note that this option has no effect if you use GnuPG 2.0.