Suggestion: Abandon the pinentry-mac.

jorgelbg / pinentry-touchid

Custom GPG pinentry program for macOS that allows using Touch ID for fetching the password from the macOS keychain.

Apache License 2.0

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Suggestion: Abandon the pinentry-mac. #23

Open CharlieYu4994 opened 2 years ago

CharlieYu4994 commented 2 years ago

Why not just abandon the pinentry-mac, and getting the password by yourself?

jorgelbg commented 2 years ago

I'm keeping this open as it is becoming a really good suggestion 😅.

The reason why I didn't go that route was because pinentry-mac already implements everything what is expected from a pinentry GUI program, it uses the data provided by the agent to tweak the UI and I would had to either reimplement that logic completely or just go for a very basic UI that only asks for the password and does not concern itself with the rest of the underline dance/protocol.

eirnym commented 10 months ago

An additional point for abandoning pinentry-mac, is application repository has been archived by the developers.