On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 10:54 +0200, Karel Klic wrote: > Hi, > > several users of Emacs and one user of Vim complained in rhbz#574406 [1] > that they can no longer use their editor to open and edit gpg-encrypted > files in Fedora 13. > > The reason is that GnuPG 1.4 was deprecated after Fedora 12 release, and > GnuPG 2 was introduced to replace it. However, GnuPG 2 is not entirely > compatible with GnuPG 1.4. > > I looked at GnuPG 2 and it seems that it would be very difficult to > modify Emacs and Vim to support it. GnuPG 2 does not allow to enter a > password using shell -- it needs entire terminal (as it uses ncurses > program pinentry-curses). > Text editors can use only shell to send a password to GnuPG. > > What about reviving GnuPG 1.4? It is maintained, secure, supported, and > its integration into text editors is used extensively and works well. It > can live alongside GnuPG 2. > > What do you think? Any idea how to solve this issue?
It's a lot harder to add IDEA support for GnuPG 2, too. Although hopefully that will no longer be an issue within a year or two. -- dwmw2 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
