From gnupg-users Sun Apr 24 17:59:51 2016 From: Peter Lebbing Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2016 17:59:51 +0000 To: gnupg-users Subject: Re: Help needed Message-Id: <571D0997.1060005 () digitalbrains ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=gnupg-users&m=146152109920059 On 24/04/16 19:16, Dashamir Hoxha wrote: > I think that 2048 is still OK. Yes; it is also the current default, so no need to upgrade the key. > But if you decide to upgrade, you can find some good advice here: > https://johnlane.ie/i-have-a-new-gnupg-key.html I consider "stick to the defaults" better advice. That website makes it all rather complicated. As for the OP's other questions, I can't answer them very well because I don't know MacOS, but I can give you advice: could you please indicate what software you are using? What mail client, what other GnuPG-related software? You say you compose a mail, and you select Services from somewhere. This seems /really/ little to go on if we don't know in what program you compose a mail and where this Services comes from (it might be that same mail application, I don't know). FWIW, no, with a good e-mail plugin you don't have to copy-paste anything to different windows. That's not a nice interface at all. And when you are asked for your password, that is not because you are /encrypting/, you never need a password to encrypt. It's asking for your password because you are /signing/, I think. And the time to cache a passphrase is set with the option default-cache-ttl in the file gpg-agent.conf in your GnuPG home directory (I don't know where that is on MacOS, it could just be ~/.gnupg), as follows: default-cache-ttl 3600 The argument is in seconds. The default is 10 minutes, so if you are asked for your passphrase within 10 minutes, I expect something didn't install properly... I hope someone who actually uses MacOS can help you further with specific advice. HTH, Peter. -- I use the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) in combination with Enigmail. You can send me encrypted mail if you want some privacy. My key is available at _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users