On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 16:49, Fourhundred Thecat said: > Yes, that is exactly the problem. Why should simple operations require > gpg agent ?
The manual has a chapter on the architecture, please read it to understand the design goals and how it was implemented nearly 20 years ago. > Imagine the authors of "cat" or "ls" decided that these utilities no Separation of duties is an important part of the Unix philosophy. Thus we use gpg-agent to handle the operations which require private keys and also for some minor things which benefit from being implemented in a daemon. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz.
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