Richard Stallman <r...@gnu.org> wrote: > I can't use GPG agent. The reasons are long and complex.
In other words, you still use the legacy GPG 1.4, donʼt you? (Otherwise you would use gpg-agent already.) Does it have something to do with the thread below? If yes, I believe, the issue is solvable.
--- Begin Message ---[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] 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? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
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--- Begin Message ---> 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? When I had the same problem, the only way to get out of this situation was to manually decrypt a file from an old format, and encrypt it again in a new format, e.g. gpg --ignore-mdc-error --output file.txt --decrypt file.gpg
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--- Begin Message ---Juri Linkov <j...@linkov.net> writes: >> 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? > > When I had the same problem, the only way to get out of this situation > was to manually decrypt a file from an old format, and encrypt it again > in a new format, e.g. > > gpg --ignore-mdc-error --output file.txt --decrypt file.gpg Or put ignore-mdc-error in ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf Emacs has nothing to do with this. It was a change on gnupg.
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--- Begin Message ---[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > When I had the same problem, the only way to get out of this situation > was to manually decrypt a file from an old format, and encrypt it again > in a new format, e.g. > gpg --ignore-mdc-error --output file.txt --decrypt file.gpg GPG 1 can decrypt all the files I receive, so I don't think my problem has to do with a difference in format. I think you must have had a different problem. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
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--- Begin Message ---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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--- Begin Message ---> From: Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> > Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2018 16:47:29 -0800 > Cc: emacs-de...@gnu.org > > 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". NEWS.26 (or just NEWS if you use Emacs 26) has some text about this; search for "gpg". Maybe the information there will be useful as well (I don't use gpg, so I have no idea).
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--- Begin Message ---[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 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. I should have added that I always use Emacs on a tty. When gpg tries to read the password on a tty under Emacs, it does not work: both programs try to read at once and it is unpredictable which one gets each character. With gpg 1, something in Emacs recognizes that it wants a password, reads the password in Emacs, then passes it to gpg. That method works. But it doesn't seem to activate when using gpg 2. Has anyone seen this problem? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
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--- Begin Message ---On 02/12/2018 16:47 -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > 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". With (setq epg-pinentry-mode 'loopback), gpg redirects passphrase quering to Emacs. This works ok in master. No other settings should be required for that. Filipp
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--- Begin Message ---On Mon, 03 Dec 2018 18:17:59 +0300 Filipp Gunbin <fgun...@fastmail.fm> wrote: FG> With (setq epg-pinentry-mode 'loopback), gpg redirects passphrase FG> quering to Emacs. This works ok in master. No other settings should be FG> required for that. At least for me, that was insufficient. The GnuPG configuration (usually ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf) needed this before the loopback worked: allow-loopback-pinentry HTH Ted
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--- Begin Message ---Ted Zlatanov [2018-12-31 16:21:19Z] wrote: > On Mon, 03 Dec 2018 18:17:59 +0300 Filipp Gunbin <fgun...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > FG> With (setq epg-pinentry-mode 'loopback), gpg redirects passphrase > FG> quering to Emacs. This works ok in master. No other settings > FG> should be required for that. > > At least for me, that was insufficient. The GnuPG configuration > (usually ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf) needed this before the loopback > worked: > > allow-loopback-pinentry "allow-loopback-pinentry" is the default, at least in gpg 2.1.18. I believe it wasn't the default at first when the feature was introduced. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. <https://keybase.io/tlikonen> // // PGP: 4E10 55DC 84E9 DFF6 13D7 8557 719D 69D3 2453 9450 ///
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--- Begin Message ---On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 18:46:12 +0200 Teemu Likonen <tliko...@iki.fi> wrote: TL> "allow-loopback-pinentry" is the default, at least in gpg 2.1.18. I TL> believe it wasn't the default at first when the feature was introduced. Ah, thanks for letting me know. I definitely needed it back then and haven't kept up with the releases. Ted
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--- Begin Message ---Dear Filipp, >>>>> Filipp Gunbin <fgun...@fastmail.fm> writes: Filipp> On 02/12/2018 16:47 -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: >> 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". Filipp> With (setq epg-pinentry-mode 'loopback), gpg redirects Filipp> passphrase quering to Emacs. This works ok in master. No Filipp> other settings should be required for that. This works for emacs-27 even if you ssh in to a remote machine and launch emacs from there. Thanks Filipp for this, I've found it very useful. Best wishes, -- Colin Baxter m43...@yandex.com
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