Re: [Enigmail] Enigmail GNOME keyring handling

Patrick Brunschwig <[email protected]> Thu, 2 Jan 2020 17:36:51 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.mozilla.enigmail.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Robert J. Hansen wrote on 02.01.2020 16:26:
>> Using Enigmail for some time now - thanks for your work!
> 
> Patrick deserves all the credit; the rest of us just try to help him
> with the load of questions.  :)  Which is hard, given that he usually
> beats us to answering them!
> 
>> As I understand, the GPG key for a specific email address is saved
>> inside the keyring, in my case the GNOME keyring. To decrypt an
>> encrypted email Enigmail needs to have access to that keyring. Which
>> means, the GNOME keyring needs to be unlocked so that Enigmail can
>> access it and read the according GPG key.
> 
> Nope.  :)
> 
> GnuPG is the one popping up those passphrase dialogs, not Enigmail. 
> We've got nothing to do with it.  We never touch your keyring.  Although
> I think your feature request is pretty reasonable, it's also beyond
> Enigmail's scope.  Perhaps ask on GnuPG-Users, or on a GNOME mailing list?

The above said, I assume that what happens is this: if GNOME keyring is
already running when gpg requires a password, it will connect to the
running instance of GNOME keyring and get the password from there. If
GNOME keyring is not already running, then gpg will need to start a
"keyring" tool on its own. And the only tool known to gpg is gpg-agent.

-Patrick

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