On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 03:31:51PM +0200, Raimar Sandner wrote: > On Wednesday 29 April 2009 12:09:02 Olivier Mehani wrote: > > > Let me explain: having several background-ish applications making use of > > the agent, it happens that the pinentry sometimes pops out when the > > passphrase cache has expired. One of my first concerns is that there's > > no way to identify which application actually needs to use my PGP key. > > This one seems to be partially addressed in [0], as the application > > could set the title of the pinentry program. > > The pinentry should only pop up when the application actually needs the key > do > do something. If pinentry pops up without you doing someting that requires > your secret key, you should be worried.
...like, for example, your OpenPGP-powered Jabber client suddenly needing to reconnect after something happened to the network and you simply didn't notice? :> G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 Hey, out there - is it *you* reading me, or is it someone else?
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