diablodale / pinentry-wsl-ps1

GUI for GPG within Windows WSL for passwords, pinentry, etc.
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Feature request: Windows Hello support with Credentials Manager #17

Open maicol07 opened 2 years ago

maicol07 commented 2 years ago

Description

When PERSISTENCE is enabled (maybe a new value?), ask for Windows Hello to retrieve the password the first time pinentry asks it from Windows Credentials Manager.

Setup

Steps to reproduce

No steps needed

Actual Result

Windows Hello is unused

Expected Result

When pinentry is called the first time, a Windows Hello prompt appears instead of a password prompt

Workarounds

None

diablodale commented 2 years ago

I like the idea. At this time, this is a feature enhancement. I welcome PRs and code ideas that might implement this new feature.

A friendly reminders for all readers of this issue: please note the security disclosure in the README related to automatically retrieving passwords.