On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 14:46, r...@sixdemonbag.org said: > https://www.gpg4win.org/doc/en/gpg4win-compendium_12.html
We had a long discussion many years ago on how to name the beast. The compendium somewhat prioritizes S/MIME and thus we tried to unify the terms by using "certificate" also for OpenPGP. I think that experiment failed because it mixes two entirely different concepts. The root of the problem might be the concept of "public key" and "private key". You need to educate users that these are very different things but still belong together. Many users only notice "key", associate that with password, and notice the passphrase they use to unprotect the private key. So for example "lock" and "private key" may be better. But we can't change that anymore, as the train left the station a long time ago. Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz.
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