On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, Werner Koch wrote:
That is how you use gpg-agent. Really, it is a plug-in replacement of
ssh-agent. It works different internally but at a user level it is
very simlar.
My talk about ssh-agent may have induced you in error. My fault.
I was not comparing ssh-agent with g
On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 10:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> For what reasons is it more secure than putting (or generating) your
> primary signing key on the card?
I don't know. It is not more secure but more convenient in case the
card breaks. Well, a very few folks do have a dedicated laptop used
on
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 12:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> The command is lurking in /usr/libexec/gpg-preset-passphrase for some
> reason. Guess it's not intended to be used directly ?
It does not make sense to be used in an interactive environment. It
is useful for server systems only and then havin
On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 10:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> need) and which I can setup once and forget about it. Of course,
> identities must be added (with ssh-add) after rebooting or if the
> service goes down for some random reason (it didn't happen yet) or if I
It seems that you don't understand fo
I'm a bit confused about this too.
http://fsfe.org/en/card/howto/subkey_howto says:
This howto describes setting up your computer to use the Fellowship
card with subkeys only. We recommend this, as it is the most secure
usage."
For what reasons is it more secure than putting (or generating) your
On Thu, Nov 23 at 10:55, Jorge Almeida wrote:
...
> OK, that seems to do the job (not much different from ssh-add, is it?),
> judging by the contents of
...
> Did I misunderstood something, or is it just that I'm using a package
> not recent enough?
The command is lurking in /usr/libexec/gpg-prese
On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, Ivan Boldyrev wrote:
$ locate gpg-preset-passphrase
/usr/libexec/gpg-preset-passphrase
Yep, it's good to do updatedb regularly :)
Anyway, it seems the design of gpg-agent is not compatible with what I
wanted. With ssh-agent, I have a always-running service (supervised by
