using an expired GPG key with ssh

[stebe at mailbox.org]

Hi Marko,

Marko Bauhardt:
> 

>> According to the gnupg.info manual it is possible to use the gpg.agent
>> "as a drop-in replacement" for the ssh-agent (and I'd prefer doing
>> that)
> 
> I know that. But i saw not really an advantage to using the gpg agent, except of the using of TTL’s for keys i want to add.
> What are your points to use the gpg-agent instead the ssh-agent?
> 

Using (or trying to setup) gpg-agent as a replacement for ssh-agent is
just based on one idea: if you deal with gpg-keys, have the "original"
application handle all key-related stuff, it was designed for doing so.
If nothing else interferes, less errors should occur and less attack
surface is presented. It merely is intuition, not science.

Cheers,

Stebe