From: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>
To: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Saving gpg password on the file itself
Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 17:09:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAdUY-+aQRt1CMKv-xtRRYyZrh9LNvc6zm6OQ-x5oM-8EAtTdQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8738388pwp.fsf@lifelogs.com>
Thanks Ted and Michael. Works great!
2015-05-07 14:42 GMT+01:00 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.
>
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2015-05-07 13:42 ` Saving gpg password on the file itself Ted Zlatanov
2015-05-07 16:09 ` Artur Malabarba [this message]
2015-05-09 16:40 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-05-09 17:07 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
[not found] ` <mailman.2671.1431189609.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-05-11 15:32 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-05-11 16:16 ` Artur Malabarba
[not found] ` <mailman.2789.1431361022.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-05-11 17:49 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-05-07 9:26 Artur Malabarba
2015-05-07 13:36 ` Michael Heerdegen
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