Re: GnuPG passphrase in Emacs minibuffer

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 00:44:25 -0400
> From: "Andrew L. Moore" <slewsys@gmail.com>
> 
> To allow a GnuPG passphrase in the Emacs minibuffer, I use the external 
> Emacs package pinentry.el in loopback mode*:
> 
> (setq epg-pinentry-mode 'loopback)
> 
> Unfortunately, this doesn't work on Debain-based systems without 
> upgrading the pinentry source (use: git://git.gnupg.org/pinentry.git).
> 
> But it turns out that pinentry.el may not be required any more.  It is 
> enough to add to the file ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf the line:
> 
>      pinentry-mode loopback
> 
> and to ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf:
> 
>      allow-loopback-pinentry
> 
> Restart gpg-agent and that's it.  The most obvious difference is that 
> pinentry.el provides a more informative prompt, e.g.,
> 
>      [[1399721]@slewsys.org] Please enter the passphrase to unlock the 
> OpenPGP secret key:
>      "Andrew L. Moore <alm@slewsys.org>"
>      255-bit EDDSA key, ID 0x0AB16F2E536D3DB5,
>      created 2021-11-01.:
> 
> versus when GnuPG runs PINEntry in loopback mode:
> 
>      Enter passphrase:

This is in Emacs NEWS that shipped with Emacs 26, no?