* Daniel Kahn Gillmor:
> This hypothetical subcommand would just protect the index. [...] you
> will be able to read your mail without access to your long-term secret
> key material [...]
That sounds useful, as does the idea of (un)locking the index. As you
may have seen on the GnuPG mailing
On Mon 2019-11-11 20:10:26 +0100, Ralph Seichter wrote:
> I tried that by setting GPG_TTY to a fixed terminal, but while this
> seemed to work on the first call, the second time I was prompted for a
> password it was echoed, in cleartext, to the terminal. Is there a better
> method to achieve what
* Daniel Kahn Gillmor:
> Have you considered running gpg-agent in a dedicated terminal window,
> and handling the gpg-agent prompts from that window?
I tried that by setting GPG_TTY to a fixed terminal, but while this
seemed to work on the first call, the second time I was prompted for a
On Fri 2019-11-08 16:40:05 +0100, Ralph Seichter wrote:
> I only access the server with a terminal, and that's where Emacs is
> running in. Curses is as graphical as it gets. ;-)
Neither pinentry-tty nor pinentry-curses is designed to work (or capable
of working well) with another process
* David Bremner:
> My only (not always popular advice) w.r.t. pinentry is to use a
> graphical pinentry if at all possible.
I only access the server with a terminal, and that's where Emacs is
running in. Curses is as graphical as it gets. ;-)
> Not all Emacs binaries have support for
David Bremner writes:
> Ralph Seichter writes:
>
>> Alas, in these cases I can tell that Emacs expects input of me, but it
>> only uses the bottom most two lines to do so, meaning that I cannot
>> quite read what is expected of me. Assuming that pinentry is involved, I
>> tried switching
Ralph Seichter writes:
> Alas, in these cases I can tell that Emacs expects input of me, but it
> only uses the bottom most two lines to do so, meaning that I cannot
> quite read what is expected of me. Assuming that pinentry is involved, I
> tried switching between pinentry-curses and
Not being quite sure if this is the correct mailing list to ask, here we
go anyway:
Using Emacs as a Notmuch client, I occasionally come across email that
is signed and/or encrypted. I am then prompted to a) decide if I trust
the signator or b) to enter my PGP secret key's password.
Alas, in
