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Pinentry support for access via GUI apps #44
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The same functionality could be implemented without any library by using the stdin/out interface of pinentry, which means we exec pinentry if its in the path.
I too dislike that pinentry is wholly embedded in the gpg suite, but I dunno what else could solve for this. Not having a way to enter a pin, and not having any caching for said pin is likely not gonna work for my usecase (bouncing around org-mode notes), guess I can try sequoia....
We can't tell which pinentry binary to use. So I'd prefer if we didn't reimplement this.
I would prefer if this was dealt with in the main
agebinary as we do a callback for the pin. I don't think the plugin should be the one solving this.
I want to use age to encrypt notes in emacs, and if I wanted to use the key from this plugin, I would need a convenient way to enter the pin for decryption. Currently the only supported way is through env vars, which is inconvenient as there isn't a good way to ensure the var is set when the key is requested.
Would this project be open to support for
pinentry? The interface is quite simple (stdin/out based) and the feature could be behind a envvar/cli flag toggle. Pinentry is also whats used by GPG.I wouldn't mind taking a crack at adding this in, but I'd like to know if it has a place in this project. I expect no additional dependencies.