gpg-notify

This command line tool (future daemon) watches gpg-agent logs and notifies you when a smartcard action is required or what process requested pinentry.

Status

Super early WIP.

Installing

$ go get -u github.com/mafredri/gpg-notify

Running

1. Make sure to Enable log file monitoring
2. Run gpg-notify
   • Actually cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/mafredri/gpg-notify && gpg-notify for now (because images...)
3. Make sure gpg-agent is restarted if it's already running
   • gpgconf --kill gpg-agent

Enable log file monitoring

Modify ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf:

log-file socket:///Users/myuser/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent.log
debug-pinentry
debug 1024

TODO

• Better state handling
• Display more detailed information about the process that invoked pinentry or smartcard
• Daemonize this tool
• Move out notifications into separate project?
• Attribute icons
• Think about security aspects:
  • Detection (and notificon) when gpg-agent / scdaemon is restarted
  • Only allow gpg-agent / scdaemon to connect and write to socket