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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2018-04-02 08:59:27 +0300
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2018-04-02 08:59:27 +0300
commiteb8b13fc01e9ec1471e473a7f3e9636de8542817 (patch)
tree63609046c9ddbd7aa70d57ad777c7640467b98e6
parent52501ec3f1e29d262844f69710a18e91f01f2326 (diff)
downloademacs-eb8b13fc01e9ec1471e473a7f3e9636de8542817.tar.gz
; * etc/NEWS: Improve the entry about pinentry.el removal.
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diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
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@@ -1505,7 +1505,10 @@ library was useless, and we removed it. GnuPG 2.0 is no longer
supported by the upstream project.
To adapt to the change, you may need to set 'epa-pinentry-mode' to the
-symbol 'loopback'.
+symbol 'loopback'. Alternatively, leave 'epa-pinentry-mode' at its
+default value of nil, and remove the 'allow-emacs-pinentry' setting
+from your 'gpg-agent.conf' configuration file, usually found in the
+'~/.gnupg' directory.
Note that previously, it was said that passphrase input through
minibuffer would be much less secure than other graphical pinentry