[email protected] wrote on 02.01.2020 19:52: > Am 02.01.20 um 17:36 schrieb Patrick Brunschwig: >> Robert J. Hansen wrote on 02.01.2020 16:26: >>>> Using Enigmail for some time now - thanks for your work! >>> Patrick deserves all the credit; the rest of us just try to help him >>> with the load of questions. :) Which is hard, given that he usually >>> beats us to answering them! >>> >>>> As I understand, the GPG key for a specific email address is saved >>>> inside the keyring, in my case the GNOME keyring. To decrypt an >>>> encrypted email Enigmail needs to have access to that keyring. Which >>>> means, the GNOME keyring needs to be unlocked so that Enigmail can >>>> access it and read the according GPG key. >>> Nope. :) >>> >>> GnuPG is the one popping up those passphrase dialogs, not Enigmail. >>> We've got nothing to do with it. We never touch your keyring. Although >>> I think your feature request is pretty reasonable, it's also beyond >>> Enigmail's scope. Perhaps ask on GnuPG-Users, or on a GNOME mailing list? > Thanks for the clarification. >> The above said, I assume that what happens is this: if GNOME keyring is >> already running when gpg requires a password, it will connect to the >> running instance of GNOME keyring and get the password from there. If >> GNOME keyring is not already running, then gpg will need to start a >> "keyring" tool on its own. And the only tool known to gpg is gpg-agent. >> >> -Patrick > > Thanks for pointing that out. So, just for my understanding: Are you > happy - design-wise - with the fact that if the keyring is not unlocked > a user is asked for the GPG key even it is already available in the > keyring? What do you think would need to change on the GPG side if a > user would like to have the keyring unlocked by Enigmail instead of > requesting the GPG key? This is clearly the fault of GNOME, or the way your distribution is configured. GPG contains a component called gpg-agent that is designed to deal with handling keys and passphrases. If GNOME decides to hijack gpg-agent then that's entirely their decision, and you can't blame GPG for working that.
-Patrick
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