Support usage of the gpg-agent

[lucky@…]

gpg has this nice feature named gpg-agent, which stores the passphrase in a secure memory, so that the client (gajim) doesn't need to know about it at all.

See attached patch, which adds a new config-option (not in the preferences yet, as I'm not very used to glade), and let's gpg use gpg-agent if the user wants to.

[lucky@…]

patch to support gpg-agent

[nk]

is this ready for commitment?

[lucky@…]

I hope so. Have so far no problem using it, despite that auto-away and auto-return triggers my seahorse-agent asking for permission to access the key.

But that is independent of this and should be fixed by not signing auto-presences in general :)

[lucky@…]

sh applied this patch for the ubuntu package of gajim. It's in breezy's universe-component now.

[hawke]

Modified patch which also fixes the BADSIG detection and does not sign auto-presence

[hawke]

My patch supercedes Lukas' patch, and fixes the reporting of all sigs, even if they're bad. It also will not sign automatic presence.

I also moved the advanced config option to be global instead of account-specific, since I think people will not generally be using the agent for one account and not another.

[lucky@…]

So I'm happy to mark this ticket as closed - thanks :)

see  http://trac.gajim.org/changeset/3302