Re: Saving gpg password on the file itself

[Michael Heerdegen]

Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com> writes:

> I have a single encrypted file in my system, diary.org.gpg.
> It's doesn't contain hugely sensitive information, and its password
> does not coincide with any other password I use.
>
> I don't want to setup a whole encryption keychain (or whatever that
> stuff is called) on my system, I'm fine with typing the password once
> when I open the file. The only thing that bothers me, is typing it
> twice every time I save.

I assume you are using epa.el (here it is used automatically when
working with gpg encrypted files).

As you describe your situation, I guess you could be happy with

  (setq epa-file-cache-passphrase-for-symmetric-encryption t)

You could also read (info "(epa) Caching Passphrases").


HTH,

Michael.