Where to save passphrases?

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Sat Jul 26 21:07:47 CEST 2014


On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 14:04, htd at fritha.org said:

> some serious sideeffects if somebody else than you e.g. could read
> your encrypted email, because all he/she has to do is to click on it
> (because the passphrase is still cached).

  gpgconf --reload gpg-agent

clears the passphrase cache.  Call that before leaving the computer.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner


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