Nicolas George wrote: > The problem is to run instances of gpg simultaneously: one to access the > key without any risk of modifying it, one to do the work. >
Looks like the only risk is you :) How would you modify a key without wanting it?! As I mentioned before - to me it looks like your use case is invalid. > Programs that make it hard to run several independent instances without > a very very good user-visible reason are badly designed. Unless it is desired to work the way it is - tell this to the gnupg developers, they will enjoy it :), but as I mentioned before they are pretty helpful and open for good ideas - who knows - perhaps they will understand your need. I personally don't. In fact you can run as many instances of gpg as you wish - only the agent will be just one (started by the first instance) and it is good so - and you understand now why, hopefully. BTW there are many other programs - for example ssh, databases, apache server etc., where you also can not run many instances ;-) - perhaps they are also badly designed. regards
