GNU bug report logs - #20030
plstore caches invalid passphrases

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas <at> bernoul.li>

Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 14:16:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Daiki Ueno <ueno <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Daiki Ueno <ueno <at> gnu.org>
To: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas <at> bernoul.li>
Cc: 20030-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20030: plstore caches invalid passphrases
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 10:17:49 +0900

Jonas Bernoulli <jonas <at> bernoul.li> writes:

> When using symmetric encryption and
> `plstore-cache-passphrase-for-symmetric-encryption' is non-nil,
> `plstore-passphrase-callback-function' stores the passphrase entered
> by the user in `plstore-passphrase-alist'.  This happens *before* the
> passphrase is used to decrypt, and if it turns out that it was wrong,
> then it is *not* removed from the cache.

Thanks, good catch.  I've installed a fix:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=2e4b0c98
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