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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | gpg 2.2 and epa |
Date: | Sun, 2 Dec 2018 16:47:29 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 |
Richard Stallman wrote:
I tried installing gpg 2.2 some months ago, but Emacs master ceased to recognize when it was asking for a password. Has anyone had success with this?
Emacs master works for me on my Ubuntu 18.04.1 desktop, where "gpg --version" reports gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.4 with libgcrypt 1.8.1.
Emacs master (like Emacs 26.1) delegates password handling to gpg2. That is, Emacs itself isn't responsible for reading passphrases; gpg2 does it for Emacs. On my desktop, when I am using Emacs and need a GPG passphrase, a window pops up (I assume generated by the GPG agent), and the agent remembers the key.
If you want to continue to type the passphrase into Emacs, here is a relevant 20-message thread, dated 2016:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2016-02/msg00102.html with the conclusion seeming to be "it's not worth the trouble".
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