Confirmation for cached passphrases useful?

Hauke Laging mailinglisten at hauke-laging.de
Tue Oct 12 03:25:03 CEST 2010


Hello,

I just had the idea that it might be a good countermeasure against malicious 
software not to use a cached passphrase without any user interaction (and thus 
without user notice). A good compromise would be to open a dialog which does 
not ask for the passphrase but just for the confirmation that it's OK to use 
the passphrase. The dialog could mention the process accessing gpg-agent.


CU

Hauke
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