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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com

Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 19:20:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Merged with 20982, 22711

Found in versions 25.0.50, 25.0.91

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 20550 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Werner Koch <wk <at> gnupg.org>
To: Daiki Ueno <ueno <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com>, 20550 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20550: 25.0.50; Add GnuPG 2.x support to
 epa-file-cache-passphrase-for-symmetric-encryption.
Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 13:26:35 +0200

On Tue, 12 May 2015 12:48, ueno <at> gnu.org 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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