From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daiki Ueno Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Password prompt inside Emacs with epg-gpg-program -> "gpg2"? Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 16:02:07 +0900 Message-ID: References: <87h9hjxnwc.fsf@web.de> <87bn7rnsqc.fsf@iki.fi> <874mdjxlcx.fsf@web.de> <87twlifsr0.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455027778 16108 80.91.229.3 (9 Feb 2016 14:22:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 14:22:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Michael Heerdegen , Emacs mailing list , Teemu Likonen To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 09 15:22:49 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 1aT9Bn-0005qo-EN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 15:22:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56521 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aT9Bm-0007EP-Is for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 09:22:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44755) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aT2Ja-0006Wk-Af for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 02:02:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aT2JS-00034l-Me for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 02:02:22 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57950) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aT2JS-00034h-J3; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 02:02:14 -0500 Original-Received: from du-a.org ([219.94.251.20]:35706 helo=dhcp-217-92.nrt.redhat.com) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aT2JR-0001bd-Lb; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 02:02:14 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87twlifsr0.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 09 Feb 2016 14:49:07 +1100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 09:22:17 -0500 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:109078 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > Daiki Ueno writes: > >> pinentry.el is actually in lisp/net/ already. For the pinentry program, >> I don't think it is feasible, since there isn't (and won't be) a way to >> use a custom pinentry program from the gpg command line: >> https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2015-May/029862.html > > Hm... I don't know much about this stuff, but I'm not sure I > understand. :-) There exists a program already called pinentry-emacs, > somebody said? That allows us to enter passwords from Emacs, sort of? It allows you to enter passwords _only_ from Emacs. That could be acceptable for those who do everything in Emacs, but wouldn't for most others. For example, suppose one use Emacs for editing and Thunderbird for mailing. When he opens an encrypted mail in Thunderbird, he will be asked passphrase from an Emacs window; I think that would be too annoying. Now that the upstream Pinentry has a proper diversion mechanism (Emacs -> gnome-shell/GTK+/Qt -> curses), I don't see any benefit of maintaining our own version of the pinentry program which only works with Emacs. Regards, -- Daiki Ueno