[Gpg4win-devel] Putty and ECDSA support for gpg-agent in 2.0

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Friday 05 July 2013 at 11:30:18, Werner Koch wrote:
> I consider it hostile to hijack the communication between
> ssh and its ssh-agent. 

Yes, it would be hostile to hijack something.

> > We don't do this for putty support because pageant would
> > stop working for some users. How many people use pageant or have it
> > installed?
>
> Virtually everyone.

See Peter's note. 

So the question is: How do we advertise this functionality, so that people 
will try it? Could we come up with a question at first start in case putty is 
installed or something like this? 

Bernhard

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