From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Password prompt inside Emacs with epg-gpg-program -> "gpg2"?
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 17:10:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bn7rnsqc.fsf@iki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h9hjxnwc.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Mon, 08 Feb 2016 15:44:19 +0100")
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Michael Heerdegen [2016-02-08 15:44:19+01] wrote:
> since some days ago, epg-gpg-program defaults to gpg2 (when installed)
> in emacs-25.
>
> With that new default, when Gnus tries to open my "~/.authinfo.gpg",
> I'm prompted for its password in a separate popup (X) window. With
> epg-gpg-program -> "gpg", Emacs itself prompted for the password.
> That's the behavior I prefer.
The present and the future of GPG (version 2.x and above) is to use
gpg-agent and pinentry. I think there's no way to escape that. And it's
better. But it seems that there are pinentry implementation(s) for
Emacs. There is one in GNU Elpa and I also found this:
https://github.com/ecraven/pinentry-emacs
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-08 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-08 14:44 Password prompt inside Emacs with epg-gpg-program -> "gpg2"? Michael Heerdegen
2016-02-08 15:10 ` Teemu Likonen [this message]
2016-02-08 15:39 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-02-08 17:00 ` Joakim Jalap
2016-02-08 17:54 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-02-08 18:38 ` Joakim Jalap
2016-02-08 18:56 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-02-08 19:07 ` Joakim Jalap
2016-02-08 20:26 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-02-09 9:11 ` Joakim Jalap
2016-02-09 8:58 ` tomas
2016-02-09 1:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-09 3:23 ` Daiki Ueno
2016-02-09 3:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-09 7:02 ` Daiki Ueno
2016-02-09 22:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-09 9:54 ` Joakim Jalap
[not found] ` <mailman.4186.1455011693.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-02-10 13:47 ` Barry Fishman
2016-02-10 15:16 ` Joakim Jalap
2016-02-15 11:15 ` Lele Gaifax
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