Return to Revisions

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)