On 11/04/2016 4:24 PM, Brian May via luv-main wrote: > Andrew McGlashan via luv-main <[email protected]> writes: > >> What exactly does gpg2 offer that makes it more suitable than gpg for >> most usage? > > I believe they rewrote gnupg-agent to actually make it secure - like > ssh-agent - instead of just storing your passphase it stores the private > key and denies any processes getting direct access to the unencrypted > private key. This also has other advantages apart from just security.
I use 0 minutes to cache my passphrase, so that should make me safe? Every single time I want to decrypt something or sign something, then I must enter my passphrase; this is quite deliberate and exactly how I want it. > However, I haven't used gpg2 enough yet to know how to use this just > yet. Okay. Thanks AndrewM
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