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


From: Daiki Ueno
Subject: Re: Small patch to enable use of gpg-agent with pgg
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 18:16:48 +0900
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Hello,

>>>>> In <address@hidden> 
>>>>>   Sascha Wilde <address@hidden> wrote:
> This is very error prone.  As I wrote before on emacs-devel: there are
> certain situations in which using the agent will fail -- even if it is
> available: for example: on an text console running the standard
> pin-entry program (which uses curses) from within emacs won't work.
> That's why I think this option should be explicitly enabled by the user.

> Another problem is, that checking for $GPG_AGENT_INFO is not
> sufficient, the environment variable will stay set, even is the agent
> was killed.

That looks a bit complicated for me.  Is there a choice of utilizing
--status-fd output?  That is, query a user for his passphrase only when
gpg requested (i.e. we see NEED_PASSPHRASE)

Though I know that this solution involves some coding to make use of
asynchronous process, I expect that it is not so hard to implement.

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno




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