From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joakim Jalap Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Password prompt inside Emacs with epg-gpg-program -> "gpg2"? Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 20:07:38 +0100 Message-ID: <87twlj10n9.fsf@joakim-desk.jockej.lan> References: <87h9hjxnwc.fsf@web.de> <87bn7rnsqc.fsf@iki.fi> <874mdjxlcx.fsf@web.de> <874mdj2l2x.fsf@joakim-desk.jockej.lan> <871t8nozpf.fsf@web.de> <87y4av1209.fsf@joakim-desk.jockej.lan> <87k2mfrpy2.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1454958499 31579 80.91.229.3 (8 Feb 2016 19:08:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 19:08:19 +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 Feb 08 20:08:10 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aSrAO-0005yA-CE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 20:08:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47982 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSrAN-0001Pc-KU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 14:08:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51971) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSrAB-0001PV-5O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 14:07:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSrA7-0006iG-0I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 14:07:55 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:37276) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSrA6-0006hm-QN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 14:07:50 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aSrA2-0005VI-PI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 20:07:46 +0100 Original-Received: from h-202-248.a328.priv.bahnhof.se ([5.150.202.248]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 20:07:46 +0100 Original-Received: from joakim.jalap by h-202-248.a328.priv.bahnhof.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 20:07:46 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: h-202-248.a328.priv.bahnhof.se User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Zg35zYTH9Y2D1+lMoiC1yEt1BxQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:109058 Archived-At: Michael Heerdegen writes: > Same on Debian obviously. Yeah, nobody seems to like it, I guess the only reason they still keep it around is because of Emacs' special status in the GNU project. > Is it bad to get "Emacs in contact with the password", do I lose > security (question to all)? The main advantage of pinentry seems to be > that it avoids to leave a password in the swap partition. > > Is using pinentry via pinentry.el in Emacs similarly secure as using a > different pinentry dialog? There's some discussion on the matter here: https://bugs.gnupg.org/gnupg/issue2034 I don't really care too much about security anyway, I'm more on the level of "if I forget my laptop on the tube all my passwords shouldn't be out in the open". So as long as they are in an encrypted file that's all I ask :) > Michael. Joakim