Hey! I use gpg to store my password-protected private key(s) and some public keys, but there is also gpg-agent daemon that is used to act as a backend (key and password manager) to certain applications. I have configured this agent to remember the secret key passphrase for 15 minutes and then forget it. If the passphrase has been entered recently, the provided encrypted files will automatically decrypt. If not then either the command line will prompt me for a passphrase or the gtk pinentry will pop up. Is there a way to "query" gpg-agent to see whether a correct passphrase has been recently entered for a particular secret key, and has not yet been forgotten?
Basically I use Thunderbird with Enigmail to manage encrypted email, and I find it extremely annoying when each and every time the pinintry pops up when I accidentally click an encrypted email. Since I use a long passphrase I find it a nuisance to have to either type it in or close the pinentry window each time. So was hoping there is a "query" feature in gpg-agent that an application like enigmail can use to see, if a particular secret key is unlocked (and it must not trigger any prompts/popups like gtk-pinentry). Currently enigmail attempts to automatically decrypt each and every encrypted email upon opening it regardless of whether a secret key has been unlocked or not. There's an option to disable this automatic decryption, but that forces the user to manually decrypt every email, which is again an annoyance. I was hoping to see a behavior where the emails are only automatically decrypted, if the correct secret key is currently unlocked in gpg-agent, else nothing happens (no pinentry popups!). The user must click the "decrypt" button, enter the key once, and all emails decrypt so long as the secret key remains unlocked in gpg-agent. Thanks _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
