From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bad epg.el+GPG2 behavior: unavoidable passphrase pinentry prompt Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 20:40:08 -0400 Message-ID: References: <878uyg0yp1.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <87a9iuxgd3.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <87wqlxx4ss.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380588029 2779 80.91.229.3 (1 Oct 2013 00:40:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 00:40:29 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 01 02:40:30 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1VQo0q-0003CE-VQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2013 02:40:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52176 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQo0q-0000Z7-9R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 20:40:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38915) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQo0g-0000X6-9p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 20:40:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQo0X-0005or-PR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 20:40:18 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:32383) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQo0X-0005nY-LL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 20:40:09 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFxLJX/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAScvKAsLMAQSFBgNiEIGwS2NYQKDJwOkeoFegxM X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFxLJX/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAScvKAsLMAQSFBgNiEIGwS2NYQKDJwOkeoFegxM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="29457436" Original-Received: from 69-196-178-87.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.178.87]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 30 Sep 2013 20:36:54 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 272DE631AA; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 20:40:08 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87wqlxx4ss.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Mon, 30 Sep 2013 19:34:11 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:163754 Archived-At: SM> AFAIK it's perfectly OK to popup a password prompt when needed and SM> I don't know under what circumstance this would be a problem. > Using symmetric (passphrase) encryption: > open authinfo.gpg in a buffer -> prompt > edit > save -> prompt > VCS commit -> 2 or 3 prompts I don't see how that relates to your previous question, which was about preventing the prompt from appearing at all, rather than about making sure that previous passwords are recorded and reused in subsequent uses. Stefan