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Does the pinentry with gpg4win-2.3.4 not allow pasting?

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Paranoid Pete

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Jul 12, 2017, 6:26:35 AM7/12/17
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I am hearing that the pinentry for gpg4win-2.3.4 does not allow for
pasting the pass phrase. Is this so? If that's the case is there
any way around this?

I get my pass phrases from a password manager, and typing them in
is not going to work.

If gpg4win-2.3.4 has a pinentry that doesn't allow pasting in the
passphrase is there any way around that? Is there an alternate
pinentry that will allow posting?


Paranoid Pete

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Jon Richardson

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Jul 13, 2017, 7:10:03 PM7/13/17
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> I am hearing that the pinentry for gpg4win-2.3.4 does not allow for
> pasting the pass phrase. Is this so? If that's the case is there
> any way around this?
>
> I get my pass phrases from a password manager, and typing them in
> is not going to work.
>
> If gpg4win-2.3.4 has a pinentry that doesn't allow pasting in the
> passphrase is there any way around that? Is there an alternate
> pinentry that will allow posting?
> Paranoid Pete

I just upgraded to gpg4win-2.3.4 and I am able to paste a passphrase into the pinentry window using the Kleopatra application under windows 10.

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Paranoid Pete

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Jul 20, 2017, 12:01:56 PM7/20/17
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In article <58392b90-2560-44e3...@googlegroups.com>
Jon Richardson <jonricha...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > I am hearing that the pinentry for gpg4win-2.3.4 does not allow for
> > pasting the pass phrase. Is this so? If that's the case is there
> > any way around this?
> >
> > I get my pass phrases from a password manager, and typing them in
> > is not going to work.
> >
> > If gpg4win-2.3.4 has a pinentry that doesn't allow pasting in the
> > passphrase is there any way around that? Is there an alternate
> > pinentry that will allow posting?
> > Paranoid Pete
>
> I just upgraded to gpg4win-2.3.4 and I am able to paste a passphrase into the pinentry window using the Kleopatra application under windows 10.

Thanks. I guess that gpg4win hasn't gotten to that version of gpg
yet. I don't know what I'm going to do when I have to upgrade to
that gpg version that doesn't allow pasting of the passphrase. I
have long pasphrases.


Paranoid Pete

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