Subject: Re: bug#67937: 30.0.50; auth-source-pass relies on epa-file being enabled

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 21:21:07 +0200

> From: Arsen Arsenović <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 20:11:20 +0100
> 
> >> - emacs -Q
> >> - M-x epa-file-disable
> >> - M-: (auth-source-pass-get 'secret "something")
> >>
> >> You will see a GPG-encrypted data string.
> >>
> >> epa-file-disable should not break the auth-source.
> >
> > Please tell more about what you mean by "break".
> 
> What I mean by that is 'You will see a GPG-encrypted data string'.  The
> source returns an encrypted string rather than its contents.

How can it decrypt the string when you disable decryption?  What is
the replacement of epa-file that would decrypt the data string?