Re: Saving gpg password on the file itself

[Artur Malabarba]

Thanks Ted and Michael. Works great!

2015-05-07 14:42 GMT+01:00 Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>:
> On Thu, 7 May 2015 10:26:43 +0100 Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
> AM> I don't want to setup a whole encryption keychain (or whatever that
> AM> stuff is called) on my system, I'm fine with typing the password once
> AM> when I open the file. The only thing that bothers me, is typing it
> AM> twice every time I save.
>
> It's simple: look at
> `epa-file-cache-passphrase-for-symmetric-encryption'.  I use it in many
> situations where the GnuPG agent is not available.  Just don't select a
> key when you initially encrypt the .gpg file and EPA will know you mean
> to use symmetric encryption.  Then you enter the passphrase once and
> Emacs remembers it for the whole session.
>
> Ted
>
> Documentation:
> If non-nil, cache passphrase for symmetric encryption.
>
> For security reasons, this option is turned off by default and
> not recommended to use.  Instead, consider using gpg-agent which
> does the same job in a safer way.  See Info node `(epa) Caching
> Passphrases' for more information.
>
> Note that this option has no effect if you use GnuPG 2.0.
>