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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: gnupg2 gpg-agent instead of gnome-keyring Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 10:10:08 +0200 From: Stef Walter <st...@gnome.org> To: distributor-l...@gnome.org, desktop-devel-list <desktop-devel-l...@gnome.org>, "gnome-keyring-l...@gnome.org" <gnome-keyring-l...@gnome.org> gnome-keyring will no longer contain a gpg-agent in the future. GnuPG treats its agent as an integral part of gpg2, and shouldn't be reimplemented in various places. This unbreaks use of gnupg2 with GNOME, as well as some issues with using smart cards with gpg. Neal and also Yuuma have done good work integrating gnome-shell prompting and libsecret into the gnupg2 pinentry program. So you'll still see similar prompts, and be able to cache passphrases if desired. The gpg-agent is started automatically by gpg2 on demand. One issue with this that it looks like only gpg2 is supported by this new setup. The changes don't work with the older GnuPG 1.4.x series. Releases required for the new setup: * gnome-keyring without the gpg-agent 3.17.4 * pinentry 0.9.5 * gnupg 2.1.6 The distribution that ships GNOME and gnupg2 should setup /usr/bin/pinentry-gnome3 as the default pinentry program. Cheers, Stef _______________________________________________ distributor-list mailing list distributor-l...@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/distributor-list
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