I wanted to use a long passphrase for some local symmetric encryption but gpg-agent kept timing out before I could fully enter the fullphrase.
I looked at the man page and it was not clear to me whether --pinentry-timeout was relevant. And "A Pinentry may or may not honor this request." was not promising. In the event I used a shorter passphrase, but I would like higher security. My use case was to encrypt a fair number of files with the same passphrase, but --multifile did not work with --symmetric. In the event, afer taking the machine off line, I copied the passphrase to the clipboard and pasted it into gpg-agent (which also has a rather small window). Perhaps I could have written a short script somehow. But I felt that gpg-agent was working against at every turn, and forcing me into insecure practices. Although I have been using gpg for a long time, although rarely and only for the usual email case, I am still a novice. What am I missing? ael _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org https://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
