Debian Package a Day ([info]debaday) wrote,
@ 2004-11-02 07:00:00
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quintuple-agent - Secure store for secrets (passphrases, etc.)
This is a followup to yesterday's kuvert package.
quintuple-agent serves as a cache for secrets, so that you don't have to enter them over and over again. You enter a secret once, and quintuple-agent stores it for a configurable timespan. Programs needing the secret can query the agent for it instead of bothering you.

Included are wrappers for PGP 2 and GnuPG.

&rw says:
Don't get me wrong, it's not a "password safe", it's a cache, not a facilty for permanent storage (which, wrt. passwords and -phrases, should reside only inside your skull anyway).

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gpg-agent
(Anonymous)
2004-11-15 06:15 pm UTC (link)
Doesn't gpg-agent do that job already?
Are there any relevant differences?
Andy.

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It's very intersting for instance as a wrapper for CVS over SSH
(Anonymous)
2004-12-06 01:31 pm UTC (link)
I happen to be using it alot on a site where I have to do CVS over SSH but can't have a ssh-agent/ssh-add system working... having the right wrapper around ssh-ask-password, I can manage to have every applications (tkcvs, emacs, etc.) work with cvs allright, prompting for password and so on, although they wouldn't is I had to input my ssh passphrase everytime.

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