passphrase in memory, how ?

[Roger Burton West]

On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 01:47:35PM +0100, Michal Hajek wrote:

>but, as far as I know the number means how meny seconds the passphrase
>will be stored in memory. 3600 means that I do not need to write again
>my passphrase for 1 hour. ok ?
>I would like to have passphrase in memory for consederable longer time,
>say a day or even without any limit.
>That is why I tried 
>set pgp_timeout=43200, which is 12 hours.
>
>So where is the problem ? 
>The problem arised after I tried this bigger value. 
>After I restarted mutt, I have to type passphrase every time, doesn't
>matter when I wrote last email.

That sounds as if the timeout value is being stored in a signed
16-bit value... try 32767 and see if that works. If it does, and
32768 doesn't, the problem is identified... :-)

Roger

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