gpg-agent

[Werner Koch]

On Thu,  4 Aug 2022 21:27, folkert said:

> How can I, programmatically, prevent gpg-agent to cache a passphrase?
> Or clear its cache?

Put

max-cache-ttl 0

into gpg-agent.conf

To fluish the cache run

  gpgconf --reload gpg-agent

>    err = gpgme_set_ctx_flag(ctx, "no-symkey-cache", "1");
>
> but then when I run my program for the second time, it uses a cached
> item.

If this has been set, the cache should not be used.  Note, this is only
for this special symmetric password caching (which uses the salt of the
S2K)


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner


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