In message <Pine.NEB.4.62.0507221038170.1816@angelic.cynic.net>, Curt Sampson w
rites:
>On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
>> First, I suspect that there's some necessity to keep the (seriously
>> ugly) gpg command line interface.
>
>Why do you think so? I have a couple of thoughts on the matter.
>

You give good reasons for most of my statement -- that we really need a 
better interface.  My concern is the programmatic interface.  At least 
two packages I rely on -- exmh and psi -- understand the gpg interface.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb