On 11/04/2016 4:24 PM, Brian May via luv-main wrote:
Andrew McGlashan via luv-main <luv-main@luv.asn.au> writes:
What exactly does gpg2 offer that makes it more suitable than gpg for most usage?
I believe they rewrote gnupg-agent to actually make it secure - like ssh-agent - instead of just storing your passphase it stores the private key and denies any processes getting direct access to the unencrypted private key. This also has other advantages apart from just security.
I use 0 minutes to cache my passphrase, so that should make me safe? Every single time I want to decrypt something or sign something, then I must enter my passphrase; this is quite deliberate and exactly how I want it.
However, I haven't used gpg2 enough yet to know how to use this just yet.
Okay. Thanks AndrewM