[cygwin] gpg-agent with ssh support ?

Xavier Maillard xavier at maillard.im
Fri Mar 13 06:39:38 CET 2015


Doug Barton <dougb at dougbarton.email> writes:

> 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. :)

Exact but I plan to get one in a quite short time ;) I am just
studying the smartcard market to choose a good one (any suggestion ?
:)).

Regards
-- Xavier.



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