On 09/19/2017 03:53 PM, Andreas Heinlein wrote:
> Handling of the passphrase is about one of the most sensitive
> tasks when dealing with encryption. I currently can think of no way you
> could handle passphrases on your own in python which I would call
> 'secure'.

In such a scenario I'd likely use a custom pinentry, that'd be the same
recommendation for a password manager etc, as for security info is
passed in the socket that is protected using regular unix user
permissions / ACLs and anyways same as regular pinentry uses.

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