Agreed. But the reason why might be because agent caching was a lot more difficult 20 years ago. It was a pain, especially for new users; you had to start the a

Agreed. But the reason why might be because agent caching was a lot more difficult 20 years ago. It was a pain, especially for new users; you had to start the agent and then launch a new bash session, until Daniel Robbins wrote GNU keychain as part of Gentoo. Now, however, it's turned into a crazy mess of insecurity.