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Do Linux Mint, Ubuntu and Debian support keeping private key decrypted once provided its specific passphrase once during current session?

Despite the computer being encrypted it might help avoid other programs reading the private key.

According to the person:
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b2Mq1axQgebhFk6EX+RClNpFLn5m+gtAwbQgzTlL5y4+Rq/LC6KGSWBidEBPreXN
1EwBCQIQfNpE9jaOWntv/wUv1QUsesCqaqTF+h+mi9JivMvoL5LQuzmcwy55DgWJ
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it works fine on Ubuntu.

So to phrase it another way, the private key is not somehow encrypted with the session password but with a specific one provided once when needed, then it remembers this password.

Related to Benjamin_Loison/linux/issues/35 and Benjamin-Loison/keepassxc/issues/64.