Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Debian 10 (“buster”)?
by coma_ on Monday June 19, 2017 @07:22AM
(#14586051)
HEADLINE: better keychain integration/mechanism for handling PGP/SSH
DESCRIPTION: It would be great to have a central keychain where keys (SSH, PGP) could be unlocked on a sessions basis (think of a merge between gpg-agent [who wouldn't scream about being hijacked every other day] and ssh-agent [who wouldn't be shell-specific and able to handle multiple keys without having to manually :
As a desktop user, what I would like is, on a session basis, when I first provide the passphrase for a given key (when I ssh into a server from the CLI or decrypt a PGP encrypted email from Thunderbird [with enigmail] for instance) have a keychain securely unlock these keys for the duration of the session (that is, until I lock the screen, close the lid or log out).
DESCRIPTION: It would be great to have a central keychain where keys (SSH, PGP) could be unlocked on a sessions basis (think of a merge between gpg-agent [who wouldn't scream about being hijacked every other day] and ssh-agent [who wouldn't be shell-specific and able to handle multiple keys without having to manually :
> eval $(ssh-agent -s) > ssh-add /path/to/key1 > ssh-add /path/to/key2 > ...
])
As a desktop user, what I would like is, on a session basis, when I first provide the passphrase for a given key (when I ssh into a server from the CLI or decrypt a PGP encrypted email from Thunderbird [with enigmail] for instance) have a keychain securely unlock these keys for the duration of the session (that is, until I lock the screen, close the lid or log out).