GET_HIDDEN deprecated in gpgv2

[Jaime Fernández]

Thanks for the quick answer!

>In any case, the code you use is
>pretty fragile because it does not follow the rules for using
>--command-fd.  See the GPA project on how to correctly use it.

I don't understand, I thought that GPA used GPGME not command line, so I
dont know how I should use command-fd. I want to avoid the use of pinentry
or any other external graphical tool.

Thnanks!



2013/3/20 Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org>

> On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:19, jaimefdez86 at gmail.com said:
>
> > But this doesn't work in gpgv2. Is there any reason? Thanks you in
> advance!
>
> I assume you mean gpg version 2 and not the gpgv2 tool.
>
> GnuPG-2 (commonly installed as gpg2) uses the agent and its Pinentry to
> handle passphrases.  Thus there is no direct way to change the
> passphrase in the way you did it.  In any case, the code you use is
> pretty fragile because it does not follow the rules for using
> --command-fd.  See the GPA project on how to correctly use it.
>
> BTW, for about 3 year gpg2 support the command --passwd which makes
> changing the passphrase much easier.
>
> If you really want to use --command-fd style interaction for any secret
> key stuff, you need to wait for the next beta of 2.1 which has a new
> feature to loopback the pinentry requests to gpg2 .  See the git master
> for details.
>
>
> Salam-Shalom,
>
>    Werner
>
> --
> Die Gedanken sind frei.  Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz.
>
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