; * etc/NEWS: Improve the entry about pinentry.el removal.

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Eli Zaretskii 2018-04-02 08:59:27 +03:00
parent 52501ec3f1
commit eb8b13fc01

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@ -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