On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Mark Crispin wrote:
If the user enters the decryption key when he runs Alpine, doesn't that
defeat the purpose of the passfile? I can see the benefit when there
are multiple passwords for multiple servers; in this case, one password
unlocks a "password vault" that Alpine can then use for the rest of the
session. But that doesn't help the typical user who just has one
password that Alpine needs to use.
Among others, it will prove helpful when (hopefully not if ;-) Alpine
is going to add support for sending PGP signed messages and reading PGP
encrypted messages using the same key unlocked by said password.
This could leverage the gpg-agent tool, for example, which is somewhat
similar to ssh-agent, in case you are familiar with the latter.
Gerald
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