Subject: bug#15553: 24.3.50; epg.el and GnuPG 2.x cause unavoidable pinentry prompts for symmetrically encrypted files

From: Daiki Ueno <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 16:07:37 +0900

Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> writes:

>>> - on a headless server this can lock up Emacs
>
> That's not good.  We should try to make sure that detect the
> problematic situation, or make it easy for the user to get out of it
> (with something like a C-g).

I doubt such a hard lockup is possible, as epg.el uses async process.