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 ====== GPG with remote forwarding ======
+GPG Agent forwarding allows a remote system to access secrets held in your local system via an SSH tunnel. When you are not connected to the remote system, it cannot access your secrets, and if the remote system is compromised your secrets are not (since they are never stored on it).
+My (initial) use-case is to allow docker on a remote host to store login my login credentials (so I can push/pull images when working), but not store secrets on that hose. THe default behaviour is to store my password in plain text, which is unacceptable.
+So I opted to use [[https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/login/#credentials-store|docker credentials management]] and [[https://www.passwordstore.org/|pass]]. The ''pass'' tool uses GPG to encrypt and decrypt passwords. If I use GPG the traditional way (with secret keys in my $HOME directory) I've not gained any security: the encrypted password and and the decryption key are on the same host!
+So I want to use GPG agent forwarding to allow ''pass'' to decrypt secrets while I am connected and working, without the decryptions keys ever leaving my laptop.
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