OpenSSH, gpg-agent, and gpg

[Kristian Fiskerstrand]

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On 08/28/2014 09:01 PM, Hauke Laging wrote:
> Am Do 28.08.2014, 20:17:11 schrieb Werner Koch:
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>> That is a cool thing because it allows us to keep gpg-agent on
>> the desktop and run gpg on the server without fearing a
>> compromise of the secret key.  I am waiting for such a feature
>> for quite some time.
> 
> Is that true for GnuPG 2.0.x, too, or only for 2.1? It seems to me
> that 2.0.x uses gpg-agent for passphrase caching only but not for
> handling the private keys.

For OpenPGP operations, this is indeed specific to 2.1 where all
secret-key operations are performed in the agent.


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