* Fourhundred Thecat:
>> Whining about a design detail of free software? Get a grip.
>
> There are more examples of bad design.
Are there now? GnuPG is software that has evolved since its introduction
in 1997. Can you show me any meaningful software of yours that has been
evolving over 23 years a
> In fact, gpg epitomizes a perfect anti-UNIX design. (See Eric S. Raymond
> for details, what UNIX philosophy means)
Mmmhmm.
> For instance, even for basic operations (encrypt, decrypt), where no
> modifications to my key pair are necessary, gpg still requires my
> ~/.gnupg/ to be writable (cann
> On 2020-06-29 19:16, Ralph Seichter via Gnupg-users wrote:
I am protesting the fact, that gpg can no longer be used without the
agent.
Whining about a design detail of free software? Get a grip.
There are more examples of bad design.
In fact, gpg epitomizes a perfect anti-UNIX design. (S
Werner Koch via Gnupg-users wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 13:07, vedaal said:
>
> > otherwise , just use GnuPG 1.4.x , and unless you ever need an
>
> Do not use 1.4 unless you have to decrypt old non-MDC protected data or
> data encrypted to a legacy v3 key.
>
> Shalom-Salam,
>
>Werner
Sa
On 29-06-2020 19:40, Werner Koch via Gnupg-users wrote:
> Do not use 1.4 unless you have to decrypt old non-MDC protected data or
> data encrypted to a legacy v3 key.
Do not break backwards compatibility if you want all people to upgrade.
--
ir. J.C.A. Wevers
PGP/GPG public keys at http://www.x
Fourhundred Thecat <400the...@gmx.ch> wrote:
> I am protesting the fact, that gpg can no longer be used without the agent.
Yet you have not described the reason behind it so far, have you? Why are you
sure, that the issue, that make gpg-agent fail to start in your case, is hard
to resolve?
si
Fourhundred Thecat <400the...@gmx.ch> wrote:
>> On 2020-06-29 14:42, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote:
>> Fourhundred Thecat <400the...@gmx.ch> wrote:
>>> I am protesting the fact, that gpg can no longer be used without the agent.
>>
>> Yet you have not described the reason behind it so far, have you? Why
* Fourhundred Thecat:
> I am protesting the fact, that gpg can no longer be used without the
> agent.
Whining about a design detail of free software? Get a grip.
-Ralph
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On 29/06/2020 18:38, Fourhundred Thecat wrote:
> I don't have gpg-agent installed, on this particular server, where I
> need to decrypt one file.
You could try installing sequioa-pgp[1], an alternative but also libre
OpenPGP implementation (still in its infancy). It requires a Rust build
environme
On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 13:07, vedaal said:
> otherwise , just use GnuPG 1.4.x , and unless you ever need an
Do not use 1.4 unless you have to decrypt old non-MDC protected data or
data encrypted to a legacy v3 key.
Shalom-Salam,
Werner
--
Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesg
On 6/29/2020 at 12:40 PM, "Fourhundred Thecat" <400the...@gmx.ch> wrote:
>I don't have gpg-agent installed, on this particular server, where
>I
>need to decrypt one file.
=
Try this very long workaround :
[1] Install a fake homedirectory
[2] Install a fake keyring (1 public and secret ke
> On 2020-06-29 14:42, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote:
Fourhundred Thecat <400the...@gmx.ch> wrote:
I am protesting the fact, that gpg can no longer be used without the agent.
Yet you have not described the reason behind it so far, have you? Why are you
sure, that the issue, that make gpg-agent fai
On Sun, 28 Jun 2020 16:24, Robert J. Hansen said:
> GnuPG sees the symmetrically encrypted message and knows it needs to
> recover/derive a key. It calls gpg-agent, which in turn calls pinentry.
In addition gpg-agent also takes care of caching passphrases which makes
even symmetrically encryptio
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