Re: balsa gpg with pinentry?

["Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)" <jean-luc coulon wanadoo fr>]

Le 21.11.2004 22:15:36, Kacper Wysocki a écrit :
> Cheers,
>
> I tried following the instructions at
> http://home.arcor.de/dralbrecht.dress/balsa/head-gpgme.html
> for caching passphrases, but it still somehow doesn't work, most  
> likely because debian sid doesn't provide the right packages:
>
>
> $ dpkg -l | egrep '(libgcrypt|libksba|libassuan|dirmgr|pinentry| 
> gnupg)'
> ii  gnupg          1.2.5-3        GNU privacy guard - a free PGP
> ii  libassuan-dev  0.6.7-1        IPC library for the GnuPG comp
> ii  libgcrypt1     1.1.12-8       LGPL Crypto library - runtime  
> library
> ii  libgcrypt11    1.2.0-10       LGPL Crypto library - runtime  
> library
> ii  libgcrypt11-de 1.2.0-10       LGPL Crypto library - development
> ii  libgcrypt7     1.1.90-9       LGPL Crypto library - runtime  
> library
> ii  libksba-dev    0.9.9-2        X.509 and CMS support library
> ii  libksba8       0.9.9-2        X.509 and CMS support library
> ii  pinentry-gtk   0.7.1-5        GTK+-based PIN or pass-phrase entry
>
> Do I really need newer-than-bleeding-edge packages to get pinentry  
> working with balsa?

If you want only to cache the passphrase, you can use seahorse.
In the gnome desktop preferences, select pgp preferences and there, you  
will be able to cache the password. It will be asked the first time you  
use it and will remain active until the amount of time specified there  
is elapsed

> The instructions on the abovementioned page are a little confusing,  
> as it seems as though the instructions for getting pinentry to work  
> have been intermixed with instructions on getting gpgsm, with the  
> result being that I don't know which steps are required to get  
> pinentry working, and which are not.
>
> Any help would be appreciated, and I'd be happy to document the  
> process once I have it working.
>
> Cheers,
> 	Kacper

Regards

Jean-Luc

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