On 10/5/2019 6:54 PM, Werner Koch via Gnupg-users wrote: > On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 10:58, Roland Siemons said: > >> 4/ Here is my proposal: >> 4.1/ Stimulate that people use a GUI like GPA or Kleopatra. Not Enigmail, > > Enigmail folks won't like that suggestion. Users need to install a > second tool which behaves different (because Enigmail implements parts > of GnuPG on its own). > > I agree with you and, although I sometimes hack on GPA, I would suggest > Kleopatra. On Windows Kleopatra and the Explorer plugin do actually do > what you suggest and we LOTS of folks using Gpg4win. Be it for plain > file encryption or for its Outlook plugin. > >> 4.2/ Ensure that, when generating a keypair, GnuPG creates one directory >> "Secretkeys", and one directory "Publickeys". Make GnuPG to store the public >> part and the secret part separately in those directories. If GnuPG needs also >> keypairs in a single file, store that under Secretkeys. > > That are all internals of GnuPG (except for the revocations directory) > and should not be touched by most users. The problem is that there are > so many howtos and tutorials floating around which suggest to modify > this or that or to do that. In most cases this is not appropriate. > gpg --import and --export are the interfaces which users need to know > about - iff they really want to use the gpg _tool_. See your first point. > >> 4.3/ Get rid of the confusing menu/Exportkeys/ vs. menu/Exportsecretkey. etc. > > Exporting public keys is an important operation for everyone and thus it > needs to be prominent. Exporting secret keys should come with a strong > warning or better be removed and replaced by a sync-with-other-device > feature. > > If you have concrete suggestions for Kleopatra, I am sure Andre will > listen to you. For GPA it is unlikely that we put a lot work into it - > it is these days mostly a test bench for my changes to GPGME. >
Given that, wouldn't be better to remove GPA all together from Gpg4win? As an aside, I don't use Cleopatra at all, is there anyway to install Gpg4win without Cliopatra? Inother words, how can I only install the command line version of GPG on Windows. -- John Doe _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users