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-rw-r--r--agent/protect.c7
-rw-r--r--doc/gpg-agent.texi3
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/agent/protect.c b/agent/protect.c
index 09aa50352..a9de732a1 100644
--- a/agent/protect.c
+++ b/agent/protect.c
@@ -42,11 +42,6 @@
#include "../common/sexp-parse.h"
-/* To use the openpgp-s2k3-ocb-aes scheme by default set the value of
- * this macro to 1. Note that the caller of agent_protect may
- * override this default. */
-#define PROT_DEFAULT_TO_OCB 0
-
/* The protection mode for encryption. The supported modes for
decryption are listed in agent_unprotect(). */
#define PROT_CIPHER GCRY_CIPHER_AES128
@@ -580,7 +575,7 @@ agent_protect (const unsigned char *plainkey, const char *passphrase,
int have_curve = 0;
if (use_ocb == -1)
- use_ocb = PROT_DEFAULT_TO_OCB;
+ use_ocb = opt.enable_extended_key_format;
/* Create an S-expression with the protected-at timestamp. */
memcpy (timestamp_exp, "(12:protected-at15:", 19);
diff --git a/doc/gpg-agent.texi b/doc/gpg-agent.texi
index ca9d469fd..6aab646f0 100644
--- a/doc/gpg-agent.texi
+++ b/doc/gpg-agent.texi
@@ -579,7 +579,8 @@ the passphrase of a key will also convert the key to that new format.
Using this option makes the private keys unreadable for gpg-agent
versions before 2.1.12. The advantage of the extended private key
format is that it is text based and can carry additional meta data.
-
+Note that this option also changes the key protection format to use
+OCB mode.
@anchor{option --enable-ssh-support}
@item --enable-ssh-support