Re: [Evolution] Evolution (1.5), GnuPG and gpg-agent

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> As some users have noticed (if they are running newpg aka gpg 1.9 devel
> series (or is gpg-agent available for 1.0/1.2 also?)), if they have
> enabled their gpg to use gpg-agent for passwd prompting, they'd get 2
> passwd prompts - one from Evolution and one from gpg-agent, followed by
> an error dialog about broken pipes.

Jeff, very cool. That will get rid of a (not so often asked) FAQ. ;)

I don't know for sure, if gpg-agent is available for current stable
versions. However, I assume this -- as this seems to be default
configuration on recent SuSE systems. [1]


> Since I presume that anyone enabling gpg-agent in their gpg config
> options probably has done so either because:
>
> - they trust gpg-agent with their passwds more then they trust Evolution
> (o/~ paranoia strikes deep... into your life it will creep o/~ --
> Buffalo Springfield)
>
> - for some other (presumably) good reason (another program needs it
> perhaps?)

- distro default

...guenther


[1] Judging from the users systems I have told how to disable gpg-agent
in the past.


-- 
char *t="\10pse\0r\0dtu\0  ghno\x4e\xc8\x79\xf4\xab\x51\x8a\x10\xf4\xf4\xc4";
main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8? c<<=1:
(c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}}