[PATCH 0/2] Prompting for the GPG password within Emacs

[Neil Roberts]

Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> writes:

> Hm, interesting.  I bet we could figure out a way to do this with
> existing OpenSSH without needing to patch anything, as long as you're
> willing to use helper utilities like socat.

Heh, yeah, I also experimented with going down this route. I wrote an
overly complicated C program¹ to manage launching the two SSH sessions.
That also only handles one session, but yeah I guess you could get the
program to relaunch the SSH session after the first connection dies.

I came across some other people who were suggesting² to make socat wrap
the Unix socket in a TCP socket and then tunnel that over SSH. I guess
that would be a simple way to support multiple sessions. However it
seems a bit dodgy to open a port because you can't restrict the access
by user. In my case though that wouldn't really be a problem because I'm
the only one with an account on both machines.

Regards,
- Neil

1. http://git.busydoingnothing.co.uk/cgit/gpgssh.git/tree/gpgssh.c
2. http://is.gd/Fy0C4g
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