Am 06.06.2016 um 22:50 schrieb Dashamir Hoxha: > On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 8:09 PM, Matthias Nick <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Am I doing anything wrong or maybe misunderstanding something? My >> understanding is that passphrases are meant for a situation where >> someone gets their hands on my private key and this behaviour seems to >> defy the purpose. >> > > If your environment is unsafe and you don't trust it, then you should > authorize > the private key each time that it is used. If you are in a safe environment > and > you trust it, you don't need to authorize the key each time you use it. > I think that the latest versions of GnuPG are taking a more conservative > approach, by not trusting the environment, so you have to give the > passphrase > more often. >
Authorization would be a gpg-agent issue though, from what I understand. However, at least on one of the Debian machines, gpg-agent isn't even running. Also, I would still have to enter my password at least once initially. But I just copy the keyring and don't need to authorize even once. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
