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?
Won't happen: 1. GNUPG is GPL licensed, OpenSSH is BSD licensed 2. The GNUPG community is working on a "gpg-agent" IIRC
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?
could be another candidate for integration...