Am 02.01.20 um 17:36 schrieb Patrick Brunschwig: > Robert J. Hansen wrote on 02.01.2020 16:26: >>> Using Enigmail for some time now - thanks for your work! >> Patrick deserves all the credit; the rest of us just try to help him >> with the load of questions. :) Which is hard, given that he usually >> beats us to answering them! >> >>> As I understand, the GPG key for a specific email address is saved >>> inside the keyring, in my case the GNOME keyring. To decrypt an >>> encrypted email Enigmail needs to have access to that keyring. Which >>> means, the GNOME keyring needs to be unlocked so that Enigmail can >>> access it and read the according GPG key. >> Nope. :) >> >> GnuPG is the one popping up those passphrase dialogs, not Enigmail. >> We've got nothing to do with it. We never touch your keyring. Although >> I think your feature request is pretty reasonable, it's also beyond >> Enigmail's scope. Perhaps ask on GnuPG-Users, or on a GNOME mailing list? Thanks for the clarification. > The above said, I assume that what happens is this: if GNOME keyring is > already running when gpg requires a password, it will connect to the > running instance of GNOME keyring and get the password from there. If > GNOME keyring is not already running, then gpg will need to start a > "keyring" tool on its own. And the only tool known to gpg is gpg-agent. > > -Patrick Thanks for pointing that out. So, just for my understanding: Are you happy - design-wise - with the fact that if the keyring is not unlocked a user is asked for the GPG key even it is already available in the keyring? What do you think would need to change on the GPG side if a user would like to have the keyring unlocked by Enigmail instead of requesting the GPG key?
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