gpg-agent

Marcus Brinkmann marcus.brinkmann at ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Tue Apr 20 01:14:16 CEST 2004


At Tue, 20 Apr 2004 00:30:57 +0200,
Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> We need gpg-agent so they can upload lots of files at once, without  
> using the --passphrase-fd unsecure 'trick'.
> 
> gpg-agent is only available using CVS, and does not seem to compile.
> Can you tell me what is the status of this tool?

Note that gpg from version 1.0.5 or so on supports the use of gpg-agent.

The gpg-agent in gnupg 1.9.x compiles fine for us.  If it doesn't for
you, please report the error so we can look into it.

Hopefully it will be packaged for Debian not before too long.

Thanks,
Marcus




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