[cygwin] gpg-agent with ssh support ?

Doug Barton dougb at dougbarton.email
Thu Mar 12 20:04:36 CET 2015


On 3/12/15 2:59 AM, Werner Koch wrote:
> 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.

And that would be a good reason, sure. But I don't get the impression 
that the OP has one of those. :)

Doug





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