Bug 506

Summary:	have ssh-agent and ssh-add also support gnupg and pwsafe
Product:	Portable OpenSSH	Reporter:	Ralf Hauser <hauser>
Component:	ssh-agent	Assignee:	OpenSSH Bugzilla mailing list <openssh-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P2
Version:	-current
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
URL:	http://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/

Description Ralf Hauser 2003-03-08 17:11:45 AEDT

using gpg quite a bit, it would be great to also have its private key passwords
managed with ssh-agent!

Reason:
I am maintaining an contact list as an ascii file with one person per line.
I am encrypting it with gpg to protect it for the case my laptop gets stolen.
I often grep it to find a person "gpg --decrypt addr.gpg | grep $1" and it is
annoying to have to type the password all the time ==> there ssh-agent -t would
be useful!
Or is there a possibility to use openSSH to also perform the local file
encryption and let gnupg aside for this purpose altogether?

Comment 1 Damien Miller 2003-03-10 11:24:45 AEDT

Won't happen:

1. GNUPG is GPL licensed, OpenSSH is BSD licensed
2. The GNUPG community is working on a "gpg-agent" IIRC

Comment 2 Ralf Hauser 2003-03-10 17:19:06 AEDT

It appears that Robbe's q-agent (http://www.vibe.at/tools/secret-agent/) has
already an "assh" program that does this (still buggy thus not yet released...)

P.S.: If it is so sad that licensing issues prevent easy-to-use-security, why do
you label this as "Worksforme" instead of "invalid". Or (not being a licensing
expert) is Gnu just taking over BSD in this matter?

Comment 3 Ralf Hauser 2003-07-16 06:54:27 AEST

could be another candidate for integration...