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by 3np 1239 days ago
Indeed. You can even break out the ssh-agent in an offline VM, proxy your ssh auth socket(s) from the agent, and have it prompt for approval that persists with a configurable timeout.

QubesOS calls this "split ssh" and you can use the same pattern with pgp.

There's also this which I don't see mentioned much: https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/ssh-agent-filter/ssh-ag...