I think providing an official, complete, easily-understandable, up-to-date, reviewed and qualitative documentation by experts for beginners and experts is absolutely necessary for security-software. Therefore GnuPG is in need of that.
If I have a (superficial) look on the documentations, FAQs, HOWTOWs and manuals of/about GnuPG, I would say some of them look a little bit sale. A potential gpg-interested person could probably not know, where to start. Some documents are old and incomplete. I'm not saying that old manuals are implying bad manuals (some options haven't changed for long, therefore no change in docs in need). After all, I don't have the feeling, that the docs (where some of them are really good) linked on the GnuPG-page are providing, what I mentioned in the first sentences of my message. Although some people would probably deny, that it's not the job gnupg.org to provide a good tutorial about using gpg for e-mail-security with some other gpg-related software like Enigmail+Thunderbird, I would really appreciate it. Bad tutorials on the web reaffirm my thoughts on that. Actually I think it would be really cool, if there are official statements/comments about gpg-related software. This could maybe help users decision of trusting some gpg-related software or the developers. It could also probably put software developers under pressure, who are writing wrong software. Enigmail is the best example for that. Many people are relying on that piece of software. Many (wrong) tutorials on the web are talking about Thunderbird+Enigmail. The documentation of it is not that bad I think, but could be better, but the most annoying thing is that Enigmail is broken by default because of the default trust of all keys. Who if not GnuPG-experts should write good, easily-understandable tutorials about the practical use of gpg by beginners for e-mail-encryption? Last but not least, a lot of gpg-related things are not matured in my opinion. Nor the documentation, nor the graphical front-ends, nor the mua-plugins, nor the OpenPGP-standard itself. When if not now is the time for finally bring this stuff in a neat quality? K.C. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users