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24.0.50; EasyPG - creating new gpg-encrypted files fails

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Daiki Ueno <ueno <at> unixuser.org>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9112: closed (24.0.50; EasyPG - creating new gpg-encrypted
 files fails)
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 21:33:02 +0000

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From: "Roland Winkler" <winkler <at> gnu.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.0.50; EasyPG - creating new gpg-encrypted files fails
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:53:51 -0500

With Emacs 23 I could create new gpg-encrypted files by simply
giving the file name the extension .gpg. Then emacs would ask me
which public keys to use for encryption. Now emacs will pop up a
pinentry window which doesn't do anything useful. Whatever I enter
there results in the error message

 Opening output file: Encrypt failed: ((exit))

But I cannot select anymore the public keys I want to use for
encryption. The bottom line is that I don't know anymore what I
could / should do to create new gpg-encrypted files.



In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1)
 of 2011-07-16 on regnitz
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10706000
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: C
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: en_GB.utf8
  value of $LANG: en_US.ISO-8859-15
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-9-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

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From: Daiki Ueno <ueno <at> unixuser.org>
To: "Roland Winkler" <winkler <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 9112-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9112: 24.0.50; EasyPG - creating new gpg-encrypted files fails
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 06:32:26 +0900

tags 9112 notabug
thanks

"Roland Winkler" <winkler <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> The default value of epa-file-select-keys has changed from nil to
>> 'silent in Emacs 24, which means symmetric encryption is now default.
>> You could set the variable to nil for the compatible behavior.  
>
> I see. Just curious: what was the reason for this change? I browsed
> emacs-devel and bug-gnu-emacs (and etc/NEWS), but I could not find
> anything.

I found the bug which caused this change:
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=7487#49

> ...Well, it would be nice if either gpg or emacs could tell the user
> that the file the user wants to save is just about to go through
> symmetric encryption (and not any other encryption mechanism the
> user might hope for). Otherwise, any misunderstanding concerning the
> encryption mechanism could imply that a file is essentially lost
> after saving.

Right, but some people (Ted and Lars at least) feel the behavior too
verbose.  Maybe pinentry could be improved to display what gpg will do.
Actually I sometimes use gnome-keyring-daemon's gpg-agent support, which
displays two passphrase entries for confirmation and that implies
symmetric encryption.

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno

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