gpg-agent cache keygrip

Kristian Fiskerstrand kristian.fiskerstrand at sumptuouscapital.com
Wed Jul 26 22:38:48 CEST 2017


On 07/26/2017 09:08 PM, Mario Figueiredo wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jul 2017 08:52:12 +0200
> Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> wrote:
> 
>> There is a kludge in gpg and gpg-agent described in this comment:
>> [...]
> 
> Hello Werner,
> 
> Thank you for the information and debug method. And hopefully this
> problem will be fixed sometime in the near future. My brain is old
> and tired and it can't just commit to yet another unique password of
> any decent quality.
> 
> The sharing of passwords between different keys becomes inevitable
> after a certain threshold. And I suspect for everyone, not just old
> people. And the gpg-agent just isn't dealing with this situation in an
> acceptable way.
> 

Have you considered using smartcards/tokens to ensure the secret key
material is only available when you expect to do operations using the
particular keys (as well as protecting against several other threat
vectors)?

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