I have an ASCII-armored GPG file that I open with a bookmark, and lately emacs has taken to opening it without asking for the passphrase, even if I just started emacs. I can't remember if I used symmetric encoding or my key. epa-file-cache-passphrase-for-symmetric-encryption is set to nil, gpg-agent isn't installed, and I don't think Gnome is caching it. So what gives? Thanks in advance.
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How can you be sure that GNOME is not caching the passphrase? If you are starting emacs in non-terminal mode, and if it is not asking for passphrase, you must have checked the option for "Automatically unlock whenever I am logged in".
You can start seahorse from the GNOME search bar or from the terminal and go to your Gnome2 Key Storage and search for gpg2 key passphrase and delete it from there. After that emacs should ask you for your gpg2 passphrase.
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This seems to have worked - I'm embarrassed. I thought I had disabled that previously. In my defense I feel like emacs used to ask in the minibuffer, not through gnome? I couldn't see how to do it through seahorse though - I had to use
dconf-editoras suggested in this Ubuntu answer. Anyway thanks! Nov 22, 2017 at 0:55 -
Its challenging to get .authinfo.gpg/.netrc, gpg-agent, seahorse, and emacs to all play nicely. You might check out pinentry emacs to input passphrase in the minibuffer: github.com/ecraven/pinentry-emacs– SeaDudeNov 30, 2017 at 5:18