On 5/04/2015 11:50 pm, Patrick Brunschwig wrote: > On 05.04.15 15:41, Ben McGinnes wrote: > >> However, if you're in real trouble from this, the version of >> pinentry and gpg-agent I have running with GPG 2.1.2 include a >> little tick box which allows the passphrase to be visible when you >> type it in. I don't use it myself, but no doubt others will. >> Presumably you can't see that and I assume it is gpg-agent itself >> (bundled with the GnuPG release) rather than pinentry, which is the >> same library for both 2.0 and 2.1. > > That's the special version of pinentry for Mac OS X only. pinentry-mac > is not part of the official GnuPG toolchain but maintained separately. > > The versions for Windows and Linux (which are provided by GnuPG) don't > have this feature.
Interesting, I hadn't realised that. Especially since I'm not using GPGTools, though that is tucked away in its own little directory, safely out of the way of anything resembling my $PATH. This whole setup is a slightly customised compilation of the sources from MacPorts and the gnupg-2.1.2 tarball's checksum matched the one I originally downloaded from gnupg.org, hence assuming that it was the same gpg-agent. Since it isn't that might explain a few things, like how I was finally able to get past those damned linker errors which prevented compiling that other copy (and all its predecessors). Well, I'm sure it will be more or less fine. I only made the switch now because somebody decided to drop support for 1.4 in Enigmail. ;) Anyway, I'm pretty sure that the only configuration detail I haven't yet fully tracked down in the new system is getting proxies correctly configured for accessing the keyservers (to avoid traffic analysis under the new mandatory data retention laws here and potentially reveal the identities of those I'm corresponding with). If that can't really be sorted out easily, though, I'll just add an SKS server after I next upgrade my server and counter that sort of analysis with everything. It's only about 6.5Gb anyway. Regards, Ben
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