Alistair Crooks <a...@pkgsrc.org> writes: > I'll look into providing that somehow (I've been of the opinion that > we need one binary for key management, and one binary for > signing/verification and encrypting/decrypting for a while now - it's > the way that the old nbpg SoC project was going too), and that > definitely gives me an incentive to do that kind of split.
The worst part of pgp and gpg have always been the user interfaces -- bulky, so many options you can't remember which ones you want at any given time, complicated init files, etc. I would suggest ignoring any prior precedents on such matters because they're all bad and start from a clean slate. Start fresh as though you were a sane Unix geek building from scratch and produce an interface that is intuitive to Unix users -- if you do, netpgp will take over the world. The only thing I will directly advocate for (besides scrapping the current UI) is something like the ssh-agent functionality. It is painful having to type in your passphrase for every email message you read, every one you want to sign, etc. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger pe...@piermont.com