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You also have to

1. Explicitely enable loopback mode for pinentry in your gpg-agent.conf.
2. Configure epa to use loopback for pinentry.
3. Start the pinentry server in emacs,

1. Enable Emacs pinentry and loopback mode for gpg-agent

Put this in your ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf:

allow-emacs-pinentry allow-loopback-pinentry 

Then tell gpg-agent to load this configuration with gpgconf in a shell:

gpgconf --reload gpg-agent 

2. Configure EasyPG Assistant to use loopback for pinentry

In emacs, either do

M-x customize-group RET epa RET 

Then set “Epa Pinentry Mode” to ‘loopback’ and apply.

Or put this in your ~/.emacs file:

(setq epa-pinentry-mode 'loopback) 

3. Start the pinentry server in Emacs.

In Emacs, do

M-x pinentry-start RET 

This starts the server for the current session. To start it in each new Emacs instance, put this into your .emacs:

(pinentry-start) 

You also have to

1. Explicitely enable loopback mode for pinentry in your gpg-agent.conf.
2. Configure epa to use loopback for pinentry.
3. Start the pinentry server in emacs,

1. Enable Emacs pinentry and loopback mode for gpg-agent

Put this in your ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf:

allow-emacs-pinentry allow-loopback-pinentry 

Then tell gpg-agent to load this configuration with gpgconf in a shell:

gpgconf --reload gpg-agent 

2. Configure EasyPG Assistant to use loopback for pinentry

In emacs, either do

M-x customize-group RET epa RET 

Then set “Epa Pinentry Mode” to ‘loopback’ and apply.

Or put this in your ~/.emacs file:

(setq epa-pinentry-mode 'loopback) 

Note: epa-pinentry-mode is deprecated since 27.1, either do

M-x customize-group RET epg RET 

Then set “Epg Pinentry Mode” to ‘loopback’ and apply.

Or put this in your ~/.emacs file:

(setq epg-pinentry-mode 'loopback) 

Finally, in Emacs, do

M-x pinentry-start RET 

This starts the server for the current session. To start it in each new Emacs instance, put this into your .emacs:

(pinentry-start) 

You also have to a) start the pinentry server in emacs, b) tell epa to use loopback for pinentry and c) explicitely enable loopback mode for pinentry in your gpg-agent.conf.

~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf:

allow-emacs-pinentry allow-loopback-pinentry 

Then tell gpg-agent to load this configuration with:

gpgconf --reload gpg-agent

Inside emacs, either do

M-x pinentry-start RET 

and

M-x customize-group RET epa RET 

Then set “Epa Pinentry Mode” to ‘loopback’ and apply.

Or put this into your .emacs file:

(pinentry-start) (setq epa-pinentry-mode 'loopback) 

You also have to

1. Explicitely enable loopback mode for pinentry in your gpg-agent.conf.
2. Configure epa to use loopback for pinentry.
3. Start the pinentry server in emacs,

1. Enable Emacs pinentry and loopback mode for gpg-agent

Put this in your ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf:

allow-emacs-pinentry allow-loopback-pinentry 

Then tell gpg-agent to load this configuration with gpgconf in a shell:

gpgconf --reload gpg-agent 

2. Configure EasyPG Assistant to use loopback for pinentry

In emacs, either do

M-x customize-group RET epa RET 

Then set “Epa Pinentry Mode” to ‘loopback’ and apply.

Or put this in your ~/.emacs file:

(setq epa-pinentry-mode 'loopback) 

3. Start the pinentry server in Emacs.

In Emacs, do

M-x pinentry-start RET 

This starts the server for the current session. To start it in each new Emacs instance, put this into your .emacs:

(pinentry-start) 

You also have to a) start the pinentry server in emacs, b) tell epa to use loopback for pinentry and c) explicitely enable loopback mode in your pinentry file.

~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf:

allow-emacs-pinentry allow-loopback-pinentry 

Then tell gpg-agent to load this configuration with:

gpgconf --reload gpg-agent

Inside emacs, either do

M-x pinentry-start RET 

and

M-x customize-group RET epa RET 

Then set “Epa Pinentry Mode” to ‘loopback’ and apply.

Or put this into your .emacs file:

(pinentry-start) (setq epa-pinentry-mode 'loopback) 

You also have to a) start the pinentry server in emacs, b) tell epa to use loopback for pinentry and c) explicitely enable loopback mode for pinentry in your gpg-agent.conf.

~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf:

allow-emacs-pinentry allow-loopback-pinentry 

Then tell gpg-agent to load this configuration with:

gpgconf --reload gpg-agent

Inside emacs, either do

M-x pinentry-start RET 

and

M-x customize-group RET epa RET 

Then set “Epa Pinentry Mode” to ‘loopback’ and apply.

Or put this into your .emacs file:

(pinentry-start) (setq epa-pinentry-mode 'loopback)