On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Lucas Hoffmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> Quoting Dashamir Hoxha (2016-01-26 16:20:04) > > About point (2), is it the problem that you have to give the passphrase > > each time that you want to show a password? I don't quite get it. > > The problem is that the use of symmetric encryption forces the user to > unlock every entry in the password-store separately. > I think it is a popular use case to unlock your GPG key once and then > rely on the gpg-agent to use it several times in a row (read some > encrypted emails, sign some emails, retrieve stuff from pass). At least > it is my use case. The email stuff obviously does not change, but the > user might want to log into several sites on the web and therefore > retrieve several secrets from pass in a reasonably short time. In this > case she/he would have to type the passphrase for every new secret (even > if it is the same every time). > You are right. This is really an issue. At some point I was thinking that gpg-agent was caching the symmetric password as well. Then after restarting gpg-agent it didn't work anymore. Maybe it is some option of gpg2 or gpg-agent that should be fixed. > > What would your setup and use case be for symmetric encrypted secrets in > pass? >
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