From eb8b13fc01e9ec1471e473a7f3e9636de8542817 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 08:59:27 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] ; * etc/NEWS: Improve the entry about pinentry.el removal. --- etc/NEWS | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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 -- 2.39.5