[PATCH pinentry 0/4] Disallow echo disabling when prompting for a PIN.

[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 21:31, gnupg-devel at gnupg.org said:

> (I assume you meant "always displayed" or similar here.)

Sure.

> For the curses pinentry, "[no echo]" is always displayed when
> echoing is disabled.

I noticed that.

> It's implemented with the patch below, which uses the presence of
> "PIN" in the prompt text to distinguish between a PIN prompt and a
> passphrase prompt (same logic already used in gpg-agent).

It ist not ideal but the best solution we have right now.  It would be
better if gpg-agent could tell pinentry who is the requestor (gpg-agent
or scdaemon); this requires quite some re-structuring in gpg-agent.  So
this would be something for the future.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner


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