Does the gpg-agent keeps the keys unlocked for the session?

Ed Greshko ed.greshko at greshko.com
Wed Jul 16 19:03:50 UTC 2014


On 07/16/14 17:13, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
>> But that is not the case with the setting and the way I use it.
> Are you using gpg-encrypted or the bluefish-algorithm-encrypted kwallet?

Using gpg-encrypted.  
> Things will be pretty swifty once pam-kwallet along with 4.13 come to
> stable repositories. KDM will be able to also unlock kwallet once per
> session, no more constantly having to enter the password. But
> automating it would mean losing the comfort of security. Anyways.

Everything is fine for me now.  As I mentioned.  I am never prompted for my passphrase from kwallet.

I am prompted, and expect to be prompted, when doing things such as signing this email as that is done via the gpg-agent.



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