Re: preventing gpg-agent from storing a symmetric encryption key

2015-01-05 Thread Ken Kundert
Hi Doug. I am aware of the ability to set inactivity timeouts and to clear the entire agent. And I still believe I can use this feature. What I have noticed about myself is that I will walk away from my keyboard without locking the screen. I just forget to do it. I have been trying to cha

Re: preventing gpg-agent from storing a symmetric encryption key

2015-01-05 Thread Doug Barton
FYI, what you want to do doesn't make sense. :) You should read the man page, and learn about inactivity timeouts for gpg-agent. Also, you can wipe the agent altogether quite easily. Your concern about people gaining access to the console is well founded, but there are better solutions alread

preventing gpg-agent from storing a symmetric encryption key

2015-01-04 Thread Ken Kundert
All, Is there a way of preventing the agent from storing a symmetric encryption key? I am writing a password generation program. The main password database will be encrypted with my private key and the passphrase to that key will be kept in gpg-agent so I don't have to retype this long pass