Problem with EasyPG and gpg.conf

[Ian Barton]

I would like to be able to use gnupg-agent with EasyPG. However, I am 
having some problems. First I am using GNU Emacs 23.2.1 
(x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.21.6) of 2010-09-01 on americium, 
modified by Debian.

In my .emacs I have:


(require 'epa)
(epa-file-enable)
(setq epg-gpg-program "/usr/bin/gpg"))

I am using EasyPG to encrypt/decrypt an org mode file. This works as 
expected. However, as soon as I change any of the options in my gpg.conf 
file (the default has everything commented out) I get a "File exists, 
but cannot be read" error. When this happens and I do M-x epa-list-keys, 
no keys are listed. If I comment out everything in gpg.conf M-x 
epa-list-keys shows my list of keys.

Ian.