Re: CVS commit: src/crypto/external/bsd/netpgp/dist

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry%piermont.com@localhost>]

Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost> 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
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Perry E. Metzger                perry%piermont.com@localhost