How to create an authinfo.gpg encrypted file with a GitHub token

2020-02-25 Thread John Stevenson
Hello everyone, I would like to store a GitHub personal access token in a file called ~/.authinfo.gpg so that the token is not stored unencrypted on my computer. This file would be used by Emacs to talk to GitHub via its API. I have never used GnuPGP before, although I have gnupg2 installed on Ub

Re: How to create an authinfo.gpg encrypted file with a GitHub token

2020-02-26 Thread Ralph Seichter via Gnupg-users
* John Stevenson: > This file would be used by Emacs to talk to GitHub via its API. While "used by Emacs" is quite unspecific and I possibly misunderstand your requirements, it suggests searching for "emacs gpg". Doing so returns many hits for Easy PG, so that might be a good place to start. -Ra

Re: How to create an authinfo.gpg encrypted file with a GitHub token

2020-02-26 Thread Juergen Christoffel
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 12:18:00AM +, John Stevenson wrote: I would like to store a GitHub personal access token in a file called ~/.authinfo.gpg so that the token is not stored unencrypted on my computer. This file would be used by Emacs to talk to GitHub via its API. Recent versions of E

Re: How to create an authinfo.gpg encrypted file with a GitHub token

2020-02-26 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
On 2020-02-26 at 00:18 +, John Stevenson wrote: > I would like to store a GitHub personal access token in a file called > ~/.authinfo.gpg so that the token is not stored unencrypted on my > computer. This file would be used by Emacs to talk to GitHub via its API. > > I have never used GnuPGP