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23.3; EasyPG: pinentry in remote emacs session without X

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From: Daiki Ueno <ueno <at> unixuser.org>
To: Tassilo Horn <thorn <at> fastmail.fm>
Cc: 10011 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10011: 24.0.91;
	Password prompt on linux console reads only every second key
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:11:40 +0900

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Tassilo Horn <thorn <at> fastmail.fm> writes:

> When I fire up emacs in a plain linux console and try to find an
> encrypted file like C-x C-f ~/.authinfo.gpg RET, I get a password prompt
> like
>
>   +----------------| Password:
>
> at the bottom of the screen.

Do you mean you started up emacs without X?  If so...

> I get a different, dialog-like password prompt:
>
>    +---------------------------+
>    | Password:                 |
>    | _________________________ |
>    | <Ok>            <Cancel>  |
>    +---------------------------+

...looks like a pinentry-curses dialog.  Actually the integration of
pinentry-curses with Emacs is not yet ready:
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8791#8
I was a bit surprised that the dialog is somehow working :)

Anyway, workarounds are to use gpg1 without gpg-agent, or to preset your
passphrase with gpg-preset-passphrase.

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno

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