[PATCH GnuPG] agent: Enable restricted, browser, and ssh socket by default.

Claus Assmann ca+gnupg-devel at esmtp.org
Mon Sep 19 13:32:41 CEST 2016


On Fri, Sep 16, 2016, Werner Koch wrote:

> really needed.  Why should gpg-agent open a port (or here a socket)
> which is in general not required.  Adding two extra doors makes it

> Other reasons are extra running code, more strange bug reports, and the

Software should be "secure by default", and not "enable as many
options as all of the developers together can come up with";
especially when it comes to software that is related to security.



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