Re: [patch] passphrase cache for GnuPG

[Albrecht Dreß <albrecht dress arcor de>]

Am 11.04.03 20:53 schrieb(en) Jacob A. Perkins:
> This kind of thing would probably be better handled by the gpg folks,
> though it certainly wouldn't be added to the gpgme-0.3 series. I would

IMHO it would be better to place it in gpg. Ideal would be a really stable 
suid root app which protects itself from getting swapped, thus making all 
the hassle to avoid cleartext traces on disk more or less obsolete.

> for how long. There is also gpg-agent in the newpg package, though I have
> no idea how that works (but kmail uses it).

This would be great, but for the time being, adding an other dependency to 
balsa seems to be not the ideal solution. Hmmm....

> I have also heard talk of gnome-vfs or some other gnome system library
> offering a passphrase dialog in the future, which could also implement
> caching.

They have a chapter about it in the HIG, but gtk 2.0 doesn't even have the 
icon they show there... I'm afraid, we have to build it manually.

Just my ¤ 0.01...

Cheers, Albrecht.


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