From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 05:59:27 +0000 (+0300) Subject: ; * etc/NEWS: Improve the entry about pinentry.el removal. X-Git-Tag: emacs-26.1-rc1~22 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=eb8b13f;p=emacs.git ; * etc/NEWS: Improve the entry about pinentry.el removal. --- diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index 4adedfce1ae..4f7bf316207 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -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