[cygwin] gpg-agent with ssh support ?

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Thu Mar 12 10:59:49 CET 2015


On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 18:23, dougb at dougbarton.email said:

> PuTTY also has its own agent support, which works quite well. I'm not
> sure why it's necessary to reinvent the wheel here. :)

Because that integrates seemless with GnuPG.  For example you can use
your OpenPGP card (or other supoorted smartcards) for ssh.  No need for
the ssh-add kludge.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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