Hi Marko, Marko Bauhardt: >
>> According to the gnupg.info manual it is possible to use the gpg.agent >> "as a drop-in replacement" for the ssh-agent (and I'd prefer doing >> that) > > I know that. But i saw not really an advantage to using the gpg agent, except > of the using of TTL’s for keys i want to add. > What are your points to use the gpg-agent instead the ssh-agent? > Using (or trying to setup) gpg-agent as a replacement for ssh-agent is just based on one idea: if you deal with gpg-keys, have the "original" application handle all key-related stuff, it was designed for doing so. If nothing else interferes, less errors should occur and less attack surface is presented. It merely is intuition, not science. Cheers, Stebe _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
