Re: [Tails-dev] Claws mail and GnuPG agent

intrigeri:
> Hi,
>
> Abel Luck wrote (31 Dec 2012 21:54:17 GMT) :
>> Without commenting on the security of this particular change, this is
>> merely a temporary fix as gpg-agent is the future for gpg. gpg-agent
>> provides process isolation that ensures the secret key material isn't
>> handled improperly.
>
> Agreed. This would be temporary for one more reason, by the way: we
> intent to replace Claws Mails by icedove (rebranded Thunderbird).
>
> Also, please note that Tails currently uses Seahorse as its GnuPG
> agent. This might change in the future as it seems that Seahorse does
> not support OpenPGP smartcards properly.
>
>> Unfortunately it seems most client apps don't like it :\
>
> I'm curious: any other examples of applications that would misbehave
> with the agent in Tails (or elsewhere)?
>

Actually, now that I think about it my problems have been with
thunderbird + smartcards + Seahorse gpg agent :|

Modifyding env vars to make thunderbird use the vanilla gpg-agent seems
to fix it (though this isn't in Tails but Fedora 17)

> Cheers,
>