Hi guys,
Firstly I'm not 100% sure your getting my replies if I reply directly from my
mail client (new to mailing lists).
But here goes anyways.
My attempt at creating random passphrases is finished. I now have a script
which generates these randomly and passing these through thanks to your
previous advice is working nicely to encrypt and decrypt files.
What I would now like to know is how to securely store and access the
passphrase file for decrypting files.
My idea is to sign and encrypt the passphrase.txt file (all good), but is there
a way that I can access the file without having to decrypt it fully back to
it's .txt state and search it to get the passphrases out of it for example?
or I just have to encrypt\decrypt each time i want to pipe passphrases out of
it? Also how do I go about setting up the gpg-agent to cache my main passphrase
for X number of minutes for example?
Kind Regards,
Peter Humphreys
________________________________
From: Peter Lebbing <[email protected]>
To: Peter Pentchev <[email protected]>
Cc: mightymouse2045 <[email protected]>; [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, 3 October 2013 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: GPG2 encryption options
On 03/10/13 13:35, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> a smartcard that caches the PIN for a limited
> amount of time
Small detail: this feature is not working in the current stable versions. GnuPG
2.1 will support this.
I use the following script to make the card forget its PIN:
----------8<------------------------------------>8----------
#!/bin/sh
gpg-connect-agent 'SCD RESET' /bye
----------8<------------------------------------>8----------
I created this based on a message of Werner Koch to this list. Earlier, I killed
the scdaemon.
HTH,
Peter.
--
I use the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) in combination with Enigmail.
You can send me encrypted mail if you want some privacy.
My key is available at <http://digitalbrains.com/2012/openpgp-key-peter
>
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