Re: Small patch to enable use of gpg-agent with pgg

[Daniel Pittman]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
> Daniel Pittman <address@hidden> writes:
>> Is it not possible to enable gpg to try the agent first, then to prompt
>> for a passphrase?
>
> In my experience (trying to do the same thing outside of gnus), gpg is
> generally kind of stupid in this respect ... if you find a way to do
> it, let me know!

Hrm.  According to the documentation I have here, '--use-agent' will
first try to contact the agent, and will then ask for a passphrase if
that fails.

I don't have access to the agent to test, but it seems that it may be
possible to have this accept a passphrase from Gnus as well as trying
the agent.   Just a simple matter of programming -- which is, of course,
easy for me to volunteer the original poster. ;)

     Daniel
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