[PATCH 1/1] gpg-agent: add new option --cancel-card-pinentry

[Curt Brune]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Dec 2016 08:48, neal at walfield.org said:
>
> > would iterate over all of the PK-ESK blocks, determine whether the
> > user could potentially decrypt them, and then rank them according to
> > the expected ease with which the user could do that.  One criteria
>
> Right, we have this comment in gpg:
>
>       /* FIXME: Store this all in a list and process it later so that
>          we can prioritize what key to use.  This gives a better user
>          experience if wildcard keyids are used.  */
>
>
​That is the problem exactly.  I saw that gpg tried the keyids one by
one...​


> Curt: I would change the code to have such an option in gpg and not in
> gpg-agent.  Thus the flag needs to be stored in the CTRL object which is
> initialized from a new Assuan OPTION (similar to pinentry-mode).
>
>
​Thanks for the suggestion. I will look into that.
​


> The option name in gpg should also reflect what it is about and not how
> it technically works.  Something with like --no-card-change-prompt.
>
>
​Indeed, the option name is bad.  I went through 3 or 4 different names,
none of them very good.​  The naming took the most time :)

​Cheers,
Curt​
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