From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 08:37:03 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Prompting for the GPG password within Emacs
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Re: [PATCH 0/2] Prompting for the GPG password within Emacs
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+From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
+To: Peter Feigl <craven@gmx.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
+Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Prompting for the GPG password within Emacs
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+On Wed, Jul 10 2013, Peter Feigl <craven@gmx.net> wrote:
+
+> Just in case anyone is interested, I wrote a simple pinentry-emacs
+> script, that uses emacsclient to ask inside emacs for the password.
+>
+> Probably not secure, but I'm the only one accessing this host.
+>
+> https://github.com/ecraven/pinentry-emacs
+>
+> Finally things seem to work reliably :)
+
+Hoo, using emacsclient is a pretty novel idea to work around the
+"problem".
+
+The TERM=dumb is not the only problem with pinentry-curses:
+/dev/tty is set up by emacs and it doesn't passthrough input
+to the pinentry program. The orignal tty (like /dev/pts/2) emacs
+is running is available in TTY environment variable but emacs would
+compete with the input...
+
+... these are my recollections of the problems -- In one 
+Scientific Linux 6 system I am using has gpg2 installed -- running
+`emacs foo.org.gpg` fails miserably due to these problems. I'll wait
+until gpg2 comes into more widespread use and align to the methods
+that prevail there...
+
+> Greetings,
+>
+> Peter
+
+Tomi