gpg issues

[John A Meinel]

So I figured out why gpg cannot start the pinentry program. And it is
because we are piping the information into stdin, which means that there
is no terminal for pinentry to run on.

So what we want to be doing is creating a temporary file, and then using
"gpg --clearsign /tmp/foo.aoeuaoeu" rather than "echo 'foo' | gpg
--clearsign".

(Note I tested it, echo foo | gpg --cl does indeed fail to run pinentry).

I think this would be perfectly safe to do for gpg. But I have to ask
people who use other front-ends like agpg, etc. I would guess that they
let you supply the file to sign, otherwise they would not act like plain
gpg. (Also, are other front-ends as necessary now that gpg natively
supports gpg-agent?)

I just want to make sure that it is safe for me to make these changes.

I'm also wondering if we want the default command to be "gpg --batch
--no-tty". Probably not, but I thought I would ask.

John
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