On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 08:54 -0400, Art Alexion wrote:
After recent Ubuntu/Evolution updates, some things have happened to the
gpg passphrase entry dialog:
1. The time the passphrase remains in memory seems to have
dramatically increased,
2. While in memory, there is a dialog that requests confirmation to
use the passphrase in memory, and
3. The new dialog pops under, rather than over, the mail being
sent.
My concerns are
1. There doesn't seem to be a way to control the length of time the
passpahrase remains in memory (though I could be missing
something obvious)
2. The new dialog seems mostly useless. Anyone can say OK. The
only options are to use the cached passphrase or enter it again.
There is no send unsigned choice.
3. The pop under nature is mostly an annoyance and not a real
problem. I can actually see it as a security feature. That is,
someone who wants to send signed mail from my desk may not see
it popped under and think the client is frozen. I jest, of
course.
Is this an Ubuntu thing, or an upstream thing? Any way to control this
stuff?
If you are talking about GPG passphrase , then it has to do with the distribution. :) Assuming the same http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/Agent-Options.html#Agent-Options may help. -- ï Johnny Jacob jjohnny novell com http://johnnyjacob.org GPG fingerprint = E296 D0B9 77D9 D968 5574 DB0D 5FD0 B7CA 03DC E845
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