How easy would it be to create (and prevent the creation of) a fake pinentry?

Olivier Mehani shtrom at ssji.net
Thu Apr 30 01:13:42 CEST 2009


On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 04:40:47PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> > The pinentry should only pop up when the application actually needs the key do 
> > do something. If pinentry pops up without you doing someting that requires 
> > your secret key, you should be worried.
> ...like, for example, your OpenPGP-powered Jabber client suddenly
> needing to reconnect after something happened to the network and
> you simply didn't notice? :>

That's exactly what I'm talking about. (:

-- 
Olivier Mehani <shtrom at ssji.net>
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