Re: allout patch to workaround discrepancies with new pgg interface (gpg-agent provisions)

[Ken Manheimer]

as i mentioned, i'm going to have online access only intermittently
over the next few weeks.  it looks like daiki ueno has submitted a
patch that may repair the underlying pgg problem that provoked the
patch i submitted in a prior message in this thread, but the patch is
still an important improvment in the way allout uses pgg, even with
the pgg problem fixed.  i hope my patch will be applied, and also
daiki ueno's pgg patch, if sascha wilde checks and oks it.

(i won't need to suppress pgg-gpg-use-agent at all, if the pgg
passphrase problem is fixed, but the suppression won't hurt, and the
other parts of my patch are crucial.  if the timing works out and the
pgg problem gets settled i'll submit a new patch removing the
suppression, on jan 1 or 2.)
--
ken
http://myriadicity.net

On 12/25/06, Ken Manheimer <address@hidden> wrote:
> as i said in the other thread ("Documenting gpg-agent"), i do think
> there's a problem in that passed-in passphrases seem to be
> disregarded.  i also think, however, that allout is better off not
> handling keypair passphrases, though it must continue to handle
> symmetric-key passphrases (which i explain in detail in the other
> thread).  so the attached patch does exactly that - allout will
> continue to handle symmetric-key passphrases, but defer to pgg for
> keypair passphrases.  i think this is a win all around.
>
> --
> ken
> address@hidden
>
> 2006-12-25  Ken Manheimer  <address@hidden>
>
>         * allout.el (allout-encrypt-string): Handle symmetric-key
>         passphrase caching but leave keypair catching to pgg.