On 03/07/2012 03:31 PM, Ingo Klöcker wrote: > Hmm. I guess you are right. Just a minor remark: To my knowledge it is > not possible to get the passphrase out of gpg-agent. The whole point of > gpg-agent is that it encapsulates all operations involving the secret > key and the passphrase in order to minimize the risk of leaks of this > information (see http://www.gnupg.org/aegypten/tech.en.html).
As i understand it, this is true for gpg-agent for gpgsm (S/MIME) in general, and for all operations (including OpenPGP) using the as-yet-unreleased gpg 2.1. But for those of us using gpg-agent for OpenPGP operations for gpg 1.x or 2.0.x, you can indeed extract the passphrase from the agent. :/ Looking forward to a transition to gpg 2.1, --dkg _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users