Subject: bug#20550: 25.0.50; Add GnuPG 2.x support to epa-file-cache-passphrase-for-symmetric-encryption.

From: Werner Koch <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 13:26:35 +0200

On Tue, 12 May 2015 12:48, [email-masked] said:

> Oh, you are right.  GnuPG 2.1 --pinentry-mode=loopback asks passphrase
> twice on symmetric encryption, while GnuPG 1.x does that only once (look

That is quite possible, the loopback mode basically emulates the calls
to the pinentry, which is in this case called twice.  It is not intended
as a replacement for the passphrase-fd stuff from gpg 1.

> Could this be fixed in GnuPG itself?

I think this makes sense.  Can you please file a bug at bugs.gnupg.org?

Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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