Crypting with epa

Crypting with epa

[Andrea Crotti]

Following this guide
http://emacs.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/keeping-your-secrets-secret/

I wanted to finally be able to have some crypted files...
I tried some time ago with no luck and now after various updates I've
tried again but again same result.

I'm able to encrypt the file but when I try to visit it again I get:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
/Users/andrea/org/ke: 0% (0/436)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

And I have to kill it, while in the background the process
pinentry-curses gets crazy...

Running on:
GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin10.3.0, NS apple-appkit-1038.29) of
2010-05-09 on linc

with OSX 10.6.3

Thanks
Andrea

Re: Crypting with epa

[Richard Riley]

Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> writes:

> Following this guide
> http://emacs.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/keeping-your-secrets-secret/
>
> I wanted to finally be able to have some crypted files...
> I tried some time ago with no luck and now after various updates I've
> tried again but again same result.
>
> I'm able to encrypt the file but when I try to visit it again I get:
>
>
> /Users/andrea/org/ke: 0% (0/436)
>
>
>
> And I have to kill it, while in the background the process
> pinentry-curses gets crazy...
>
> Running on:
> GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin10.3.0, NS apple-appkit-1038.29) of
> 2010-05-09 on linc
>
> with OSX 10.6.3
>
> Thanks
> Andrea
>
>
>
>

I use encryption with emacs 23 under Debinn Linux. Are you sure you
should be using pinentry curses?

For my set up my ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf has

,----
| pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-gtk-2
`----

I am guessing you are using a GUI desktop. I assume there is something
similar but have no idea about Mac/OS X to be honest.

Good luck!

Re: Crypting with epa

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Richard Riley <rileyrg@gmail.com> writes:

> Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Following this guide
>> http://emacs.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/keeping-your-secrets-secret/
>>
>> I wanted to finally be able to have some crypted files...
>> I tried some time ago with no luck and now after various updates I've
>> tried again but again same result.
>>
>> I'm able to encrypt the file but when I try to visit it again I get:
>>
>>
>> /Users/andrea/org/ke: 0% (0/436)
>>
>>
>>
>> And I have to kill it, while in the background the process
>> pinentry-curses gets crazy...
>>
>> Running on:
>> GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin10.3.0, NS apple-appkit-1038.29) of
>> 2010-05-09 on linc
>>
>> with OSX 10.6.3
>>
>> Thanks
>> Andrea
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> I use encryption with emacs 23 under Debinn Linux. Are you sure you
> should be using pinentry curses?
>
> For my set up my ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf has
>
> ,----
> | pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-gtk-2
> `----
>
> I am guessing you are using a GUI desktop. I assume there is something
> similar but have no idea about Mac/OS X to be honest.
>
> Good luck!

You can avoid completely using pinentry by using version 1.4.10 of gnupg
instead of version >2.0

,----[ http://www.gnupg.org/ ]
| GnuPG comes in two flavours: 1.4.10 is the well known and portable
| standalone version, whereas 2.0.15 is the enhanced and somewhat 
| harder to build version.
`----


-- 
Thierry Volpiatto
Gpg key: http://pgp.mit.edu/

Re: Crypting with epa

[Andrea Crotti]

Richard Riley <rileyrg@gmail.com> writes:

> Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> writes:
>
>
> I use encryption with emacs 23 under Debinn Linux. Are you sure you
> should be using pinentry curses?
>
> For my set up my ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf has
>
> ,----
> | pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-gtk-2
> `----
>
> I am guessing you are using a GUI desktop. I assume there is something
> similar but have no idea about Mac/OS X to be honest.
>
> Good luck!

Ah good thanks, I followed the instructions found here:
http://www.arthurkoziel.com/2008/06/10/how-to-gnupg-for-mailapp-in-leopard/

and now apparently pinentry is not a problem anymore,
/Users/andrea/org/pr: 0% (0/424)
/Users/andrea/org/pr: 100% (424/424)

But I still can't see the content of the file:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
File exists, but cannot be read
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---