If only someone would update Seahorse to store optional metadata along with passwords...
If only someone would update Seahorse to store optional metadata along with passwords...
Most importantly, a simple GPG file is not an obscure file format.
For me, unlock on login is essential. If someone beats me unconscious and steals my computer while I'm in a logged-in session, I have bigger things to worry about than a potentially lost password database.
On a tangential note, we as a hacker community really have to work on de-mystifying public/private keypair encryption. It gives me a headache to think about it and I've been a programmer for over a decade. If it does that to me then it's utterly unfathomable to laypeople and they're the ones who could make the most use out of strong encryption, and who could become the champions of privacy and security in the NSA-snooping age. But it's just too hard to explain and use.
I prefer having the key + passphrase over just a passphrase. It makes it more difficult for the information to leak.
That said, if you'd like a pass with a gpg -c mode, it shouldn't be hard to add. I could do this, or you could send a nice git formatted patch. Let me know.
(Although as a CLI program I suppose the argument could be made that non-techies will ignore it on principle anyway...)