Hi Patrick, all Am 2014-08-14 17:15, schrieb Patrick Brunschwig: > On 14.08.14 13:41, Jogi Hofmüller wrote: >> After a recent upgrade to enigmail 1.7 (Debian/testing) I got >> annoyed by the "gnome hijacked gpg-agent message" and disabled the >> gpg part of gnome keyring. Now enigmail asks for my passphrase >> every time I read an encrypted mail and even twice when I send one, >> despite telling it that it should keep the passphrase in memory. > > Why? You should only get the message when you save the Enigmail > prefrences.
I figured that I "schould" only get it then, but I kept getting it every time I started Thunderbird/Icedove. The wording is also a bit strange because it suggests that something evil is going on (hijacked). Guess users that read it could get overly confused ... >> What's so bad about gnome keyring that all of a sudden enigmail >> doesn't want to work with it anymore? It worked fine until 1.7 >> appeared. How are others handling this? > > The "only" problem is that Enigmail cannot configure gnome-keyring, > i.e. when you change the passphrase caching settings, Enigmail cannot > reconfigure gnome-keyring (which works in gpg-agent). Uh, well, then I underline my opinion that the wording is too strong. >> Personally I would say that PGP is complicated enough and the new >> behavior of enigmail doesn't really make things easier ... > > Why don't you set up gpg-agent or re-activate gnome-keyring for gpg? I did set up gpg-agent now and will continue using it for a while. Still, this is a big hurdle for users not used to editing config files. Gnome (and other environments too I guess) is doing a pretty good job in making Linux usable for the masses. Why should crypto hang behind and make things overly complicated? Anyhow, just my thoughts on this recent experience. Regards, -- j.hofmüller aka Thesix >-<#!&$@@@? http://thesix.mur.at/
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