Pinentry and passphrase file button

Ben Kibbey bjk at luxsci.net
Sat Oct 3 18:48:47 CEST 2015


Does anyone object to adding a button to the pinentry dialogs to fill
the passphrase text field with the contents of a file? The passphrase
file may contain control characters so maybe adding a checkbox to toggle
the text field, a new filename text field and file button would be
better.

Also, since the passphrase file may contain control characters (nil
included), many functions in gpg-agent would need to be passed the
length of the passphrase rather than potentially truncating it. Or maybe
only issue a warning in pinentry if the passphrase would be truncated?

-- 
Ben Kibbey



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