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Re: Password prompt inside Emacs with epg-gpg-program -> "gpg2"?


From: Lars Ingebrigtsen
Subject: Re: Password prompt inside Emacs with epg-gpg-program -> "gpg2"?
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 09:50:09 +1100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux)

Daiki Ueno <ueno@gnu.org> writes:

> It allows you to enter passwords _only_ from Emacs.  That could be
> acceptable for those who do everything in Emacs, but wouldn't for most
> others.  For example, suppose one use Emacs for editing and Thunderbird
> for mailing.  When he opens an encrypted mail in Thunderbird, he will be
> asked passphrase from an Emacs window; I think that would be too
> annoying.

Oh, I see.  Yeah, that doesn't sound very useful in general.

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