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+Keychain is a manager for OpenSSH, ssh.com, Sun SSH and GnuPG agents.
+It acts as a front-end to the agents, allowing you to easily have one
+long-running agent process per system, rather than per login session.
+This dramatically reduces the number of times you need to enter your
+passphrase from once per new login session to once every time your
+local machine is rebooted.
+
+This allows 'cron' jobs to use 'ssh' scripts in a friendly
+(yet secure) manner.