Moving the agent's socket to /var/run ?

[Neal H. Walfield]

On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 19:29:39 +0100,
Werner Koch wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 16:33, neal at walfield.org said:
> 
> >   /var/run/user/<uid>/S.gpg-agent-hash
> >
> > where hash is the hash of GNUPGHOME?
> 
> Clever idea.  Do we need to truncate the hash?
> 
> /var/run/user/65535/S.gpg-agent-823125cb68e88fabb56828d6a090df0211228809
> 
> would be short enough but I doubt we need 160 bit to differentiate
> between one users gnupg home directories.

I suspect that 32 bits would be sufficient and 64 bits are definately
more than enough.  The only adversary in this scenario is the birthday
paradox.

:) Neal