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XIII
4 years agoSuper Contributor
GPG support? (like SSH)
Would it be possible to add similar support for GPG keys?
81 Replies
- rosstimsonNew Contributor
+1. I'd like to be able to store GPG subkeys in 1Password and instead of entering a PIN like I currently do with subkeys stored on a Yubikey I'd just use fingerprint. Subkeys would sync with other machines in the same way SSH keys (and everything else) do. I've already switched to using SSH with 1Password for signing Git commits, mostly for the convenience. If there was GPG support though I'd probably use GPG for Git signing again. However, I also use GPG for encryption of files, it's especially useful for encrypting and authing to things like email services etc when using Emacs which is my editor of choice.
- shishi1pNew Contributor
I can't wait to see this feature. GPG keys are not only for Git as you know and hard to store it securely. This will be very useful for business users also.
- srmNew Contributor
+1
- joshmockNew Contributor
I think they're hoping everyone storing PGP keys is using them for signing commits and as people discover it can be done with SSH, they'll give up asking for the feature.
I use GPG for more than just commit signing. Many CLI-based tools use GPG keys to encrypt secrets at rest, so that you can be prompted for your GPG passphrase at decrypt time rather than implementing some other standalone encryption scheme.
For example, https://www.passwordstore.org/ is used by my terminal email client to store my email account's password, which it encrypts using my GPG key.
- LucentNew Contributor
I think they're hoping everyone storing PGP keys is using them for signing commits and as people discover it can be done with SSH, they'll give up asking for the feature. There are indeed those of us from the '90s still using S/MIME and encrypting blocks to others who want 1Password to be the one stop secret shop.
- festus777New Contributor
What would be really beneficial after almost 2 years of this discussion is whether 1Password would comment on this feasibility. There have been plenty of comments on its usefulness. Either we’re considering, working on it, or it a’int happening.
- dannysauerNew Contributor
I'm still super interested in this because I'd like to be able to more natively use 1password as the central hub to store keys used to sign published artifacts generated in CI. It'd be super-handy if I could easily generate a new signing subkey and revoke one which was compromised when a CI system's cloud provider gets hacked again, all without having to change a thing about the ci logic. Bonus points for also auto-publishing to one or more keyservers on-change. For one example.
Right now I have to locally export a key, import that into 1password as a text field, then have automation fetch the armored key before importing it into a local agent, etc. It's kind of a convoluted process compared to something like telling a package signing process to just use a local key agent which can just speak to 1password connect -- for another example. :)
Git commit signing is technically on the list, but more of a side effect to me personally.
- LukasWNew Contributor
+1
I require GPG for commit signing with eclipse/jgit, which as far as I can tell does not support SSH signing - Ryan_ParmanDedicated Contributor
I use GPG for git signing and for email sending. Yes, I could change to use SSH for git signing (six in one hand; half-dozen in the other), and S/MIME for email encryption (more difficult than GPG).
At present, I use https://gpgtools.org (macOS) for managing all of my GPG keys, and the GPG keys of contacts and services. I also use https://github.com/jorgelbg/pinentry-touchid for using Touch ID instead of having to lookup and type in a password. It's not a bad solution at all, and may be a good choice in the interim for people who are still waiting on this support in 1Password.
I have no idea if this feature will come to 1Password or not. All I know is that this thread was started 2 years ago, and we still do not have it in any shipping release. I have low expectations about this becoming a reality, so I've moved on. There are other tools that solve this just as well — it doesn't need to be baked into 1Password if the company doesn't want to do it.
¯_(ツ)_/¯
- mrclrchtrNew Contributor
+1
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