Foreword
I've started to use PGP in jabber (GnuPG for windows - Gpg4win - I've used this instruction). Backup of instruction just in case:
Problem
And every time when I've got incoming message in jabber - appeared windows 'pinentry' and asked me password (passphrase). It's very annoying and in the internet I didn't find solution for Windows OS.Window - looks like that:
Lyrics
So, in the internet there are lot of posts where people advices create file with properties - 'gpg-agent.conf', but usually it's about linux. Process monitor showed that in Windows this file expected to be in "C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\gnupg\gpg-agent.conf"Action
- Create file "C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\gnupg\gpg-agent.conf"
- Write in this file 2 lines (values can be any big number - it's seconds of caching your password):
- max-cache-ttl 2592000
- default-cache-ttl 2592000
- Restart your gpg-agent.exe process
