Confirmation for cached passphrases useful?

[Larry Brower]

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Hauke Laging wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just had the idea that it might be a good countermeasure against malicious 
> software not to use a cached passphrase without any user interaction (and thus 
> without user notice). A good compromise would be to open a dialog which does 
> not ask for the passphrase but just for the confirmation that it's OK to use 
> the passphrase. The dialog could mention the process accessing gpg-agent.
> 
> 
> CU
> 
> Hauke
> 

This seems like something that would get really annoying really
quickly. Why not just change settings to not cache the passphrase if
you do not like using it this way ?
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