Configuring GPG for Emacs in MacOS
Table of Contents
1. pinentry fix
Decrypting with GPG failed with following message in Emacs
Error while decrypting with "/opt/homebrew/bin/gpg":
gpg: encrypted with rsa2048 key, ID 9EC749B2A876A133, created 2020-10-19 "Bibek Panthi <bpanthi977@gmail.com>" gpg: public key decryption failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device gpg: decryption failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
in ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf add the following (Source)
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# this means clients like Emacs can get the password in their own way and push to gpg # for this to work with Emacs, set epa-pinentry-mode to 'loopback in Emacs allow-loopback-entry
and add to you config:
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(setq epa-pinentry-mode 'loopback)
2. gnupg >2.4.0 doesn't work with emacs
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/137r7j7/gnupg_241_encryption_issues_with_emacs_orgmode/
There are fixees for gnupg (and maybe emacs) being discussed here: https://dev.gnupg.org/T6481
In the meanwhile force install gnupg==2.4.0 or lower.
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brew info gnupg | grep "From:" | cut -d " " -f 2
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/g/gnupg.rb
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URL=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/59edfe598541186430d49cc34f42671e849e2fc9/Formula/gnupg.rb wget $URL brew uninstall --ignore-dependencies gnupg brew install -s gnupg.rb
