[Enigmail] can not query passphrase in batch mode

Faramir faramir.cl at gmail.com
Mon May 26 07:29:03 PDT 2008


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Stefan X escribió:
> That's it! The option "never ask for any passphrase" was enabled. But I 
> am pretty sure I never enabled this option. So I created another key 
> without a passphrase. I found out that in such case the option is 
> automatically enabled by Enigmail no matter if another key with a 
> passphrase exist or not. For my opinion this is a bug. Instead Enigmail 
> should check at time of key creation if another key with passphrase 
> protection exist. If this is the case this option should NOT 
> automatically be enabled. Otherwise it could. It would even be better if 
> Enigmail checks at runtime if a passphrase is required and does query or 
> does not query appropriately. Than such option would be obsolete.

  By the way, I don't understand why it is allowed to create a key
without passphrase... I mean, it would be safer to put a post it in the
computer screen with the passphrase... at least, if the computer is
hacked, the attacker would not see it...
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