gpg-agent

Albrecht Dreß albrecht.dress at arcor.de
Tue Apr 20 21:07:06 CEST 2004


Am 20.04.04 15:02 schrieb(en) Werner Koch:
> When using gpg with the gpg-agent, the ganet does not do what it
> eventually should:  Keeping all secret key stuff under the sole
> control of the agent.  Instead gpg uses the agent simply as a way to
> access the pinentry and to cache passphrases.

...which is a *really* nice feature, e.g. if you want to decrypt a bunch  
of files! However, the output when using gpg is really sparse: for me,  
pinentry-gtk just says "Passphrase" and nothing more (in contrast to  
gpgsm, where I get some information abut what is needed and why). Isn't it  
possible to make output with gpg somewhat more meaningful == user- 
friendly?

Cheers, Albrecht.


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