In some spare minutes while waiting for an airplane to arrive and my vacation to begin, I did a little more work on the key backup and migration tool that I mentioned on-list a while ago. It's still fairly simple, but there's a good side to simplicity: that also makes it hard to screw up.
Major changes: 1. Switched over to Java, mostly for access to a good GUI toolkit[*] 2. Now there's a proper GUI on it 3. Better sanity-checking and error handling 4. Now on Github at https://github.com/rjhansen/gpgma If you've wanted to contribute some code to GnuPG but feel a little intimidated by the size of the codebase and the occasional hairiness of C, I hope you'll take a look at gpgma. It works, but there's a lot of stuff that could be done as well -- things from simple to complicated, like: * Adding a menu bar to make it look like a normal application (simple) * Improving error handling and error reporting (simple) * Making it able to recognize when it's given a corrupted/incomplete backup file (moderate) * Making it back up everything but random_seed, not just the absolutely necessary files (simple to moderate) * Use Eclipse/SWT to make it look native on all platforms (moderate) If you're interested I hope you'll check it out. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
