Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On 04/24/2014 02:52 PM, Mike Acker wrote: > >> which, as noted, is why they have per recipient rules > > I know that Enigmail has these rules, and that they are a way to work > around GnuPG's suboptimal key-selection-from-email-address routine. I > think there may be better ways to resolve these issues if we consider > all the pieces of the stack. > > I think GnuPG's key selection routines need to be improved, and that > would obviate the majority of the need for per-recipient rules.
Good luck with changing the behavior of GnuPG ;-)
Obviate? Eh, not so much. Key selection for encryption is only one use for P-R
rules. Whether to sign and/or encrypt, and Inline vs PGP/MIME decisions
outside of default account settings are also handled by per-recipient rules.
I'm not saying key selection isn't an important use of P-R rules, but it's
hardly the /sine qua non/ of P-R rules.
-John
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