I'll second that.  The moment after I have pasted the password I'm done
with pass and don't want it fiddling with anything outside of its scope.

Philip


On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 6:46 AM, Brian Shore <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Josh Cartwright <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > In the clipboard case, I think pass shouldn't be in the business of
> > saving/restoring data, instead it should just clear the clipboard after
> > a timeout.  (As was suggested in a previous thread).  Then the whole
> > base64 nonsense can be dropped entirely.
>
> What happens if the user copies something else to the clipboard a few
> seconds before pass blanks it?  Copying something non-sensitive and
> having that data mysteriously disappear from the clipboard is
> counter-intuitive and gets in the way.
>
> I think checking the clipboard content before blanking is still a good
> thing to do.  Blanking if it's still the password is fine, but
> destroying new data is not.
>
>
>
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