From: Matthew Carter <m@ahungry.com>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using epg with gpg-agent
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 00:18:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878t7c9177.fsf@ahungry.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1fUg1o-0003dl-Px@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 17 Jun 2018 18:20:08 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
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> Does anyone know how to make the Emacs encryption commands such as
> epa-decrypt-region work with gpg-agent on a text console?
> If I start gpg-agent in the usual way before running Emacs,
> then when I try to decrypt, gpg-agent and Emacs both try to
> read from the terminal so the passphrase always gets garbled.
I use a setup where all my Emacs based decryption (epa) commands are
from the (text/tty Emacs) password input prompt in Emacs, and sent to
gpg-agent. This works for me over SSH, tty1-6, or in an X session
terminal emulator (no call out to the GUI password input prompt).
More recent versions of Emacs/gpg-agent required me to add the loopback
option, as well as the Emacs options - a couple years ago it worked with
just the allow-emacs-pinentry setting and nothing else:
My relevant settings are as follows:
In ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf:
allow-emacs-pinentry
allow-loopback-pinentry
On the Emacs side:
(setq epa-pinentry-mode 'loopback)
(pinentry-start) ; This was disabled recently in Emacs 26+ and has to be
explicitly called
I know I ran into many garbled text issues when trying to combine
ncurses input on the gpg-agent with Emacs functions.
--
Matthew Carter (m@ahungry.com)
http://ahungry.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-18 4:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-17 22:20 Using epg with gpg-agent Richard Stallman
2018-06-18 4:18 ` Matthew Carter [this message]
2018-06-19 2:03 ` Filipp Gunbin
2018-06-19 22:57 ` Richard Stallman
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