Re: Stop emacs caching gpg keys

[Colin Baxter]

Hello Gregor,
>>>>> Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> writes:

    > Hi Colin, * Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> [30. Jan. 2021]:
    >> I have GnuPG (gpg) version 2.1.18. As is well known, this version
    >> of gpg has the utterly annoying habit of storing gpg keys in the
    >> cache for some time (1 hour default, I think).
    >> 
    >> To stop this happening I run 'gpgconf --kill gpg-agent'. This
    >> works fine in bash scripts that control the encryption, where I
    >> can put that command in the script.

    > wouldn't it be easyier to configure gpg-agent:

One would think so, but setting the time in which the cache holds the
password is not what I want. I am happy to hold passwords in the cache
but only up until the moment I want them removed, and of course this
moment varies from job to job.

I have looked at firestarter https://depp.brause.cc/firestarter/. This
goes some way to want I want, but not all the way. I think I'll stick
for the time being to using the shell-command as I mentioned in the OP.

Thank you for your interest and help.


Best wishes,

Colin.