Use the same passphrase for PGP and SSH keys and get prompted only once by gpg-agent

[Pierre Neidhardt]

Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> writes:

> You may now wonder why this does not happen when you decrypt a mail,
> reply to it and sign the reply.  Two subkeys (or the primary and the
> encryption subkey) are involved in this workflow.  Because this is so
> common, gpg-agent knows about it and tries the last passphrase used for
> any of the the subkeys of a key.  It does not do this for an
> authentication subkey, though.  Thus you have to enter it again for ssh.

Thanks for the detailed answer.  But why not doing it for SSH then?
Just because it's less common?  Would there be any way to configure this?

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt

War spares not the brave, but the cowardly.
		-- Anacreon
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