> On 2020-06-30 13:27, Ralph Seichter via Gnupg-users wrote:
* Fourhundred Thecat:
Show us a body of your work which proves you have the necessary
skills to critique the GnuPG authors' work. Until you do, your
"judgment" is moot.
An idea should be considered on its own merit.
What "idea" wo
Fourhundred Thecat <400the...@gmx.ch> wrote:
> In fact, gpg epitomizes a perfect anti-UNIX design. (See Eric S. Raymond for
> details, what UNIX philosophy means)
> I believe this project is going in the wrong direction, and bad design
> decisions are being made.
Was not it you who have just co
> I am basing my judgment on universal principles, that apply not only to
> gpg or other software, but design of any systems in general.
There is no such universal playbook. It simply does not exist.
In his book _Lila_ the philosopher Robert M. Pirsig wrote that morality
is not a set of universa
Fourhundred Thecat <400the...@gmx.ch> wrote:
> In case of gpg, there is one mode where you generate your key pair, change
> configuration files, or any other read-write operation.
>
> But for general usage, there is no reason for the key pair to need to be
> writable.
Sure. So there is none:
On 30-06-2020 12:10, Werner Koch via Gnupg-users wrote:
>> Do not break backwards compatibility if you want all people to upgrade.
>
> Do not update so that the bad guys can exploit your legacy software ;-)
>
> There are well documented reasons what we don't support MDC and PGP3
> keys anymore -
* Fourhundred Thecat:
>> Show us a body of your work which proves you have the necessary
>> skills to critique the GnuPG authors' work. Until you do, your
>> "judgment" is moot.
>
> An idea should be considered on its own merit.
What "idea" would that be, exactly?
> You should counter my critici
> On 2020-06-30 12:26, Ralph Seichter via Gnupg-users wrote:
* Fourhundred Thecat:
I am basing my judgment on universal principles, that apply not only
to gpg or other software, but design of any systems in general.
Universal principles, oh my. In other words, you don't know nearly
enough abo
* Fourhundred Thecat:
> I am basing my judgment on universal principles, that apply not only
> to gpg or other software, but design of any systems in general.
Universal principles, oh my. In other words, you don't know nearly
enough about the finer points of GnuPG design goals, don't know much
ab
On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 00:55, Johan Wevers said:
>> 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.
Do not update so that the bad guys can exploit your legacy sof
> On 2020-06-30 08:55, Ralph Seichter via Gnupg-users wrote:
* Fourhundred Thecat:
What insight do you have in the design and development of GnuPG; in its
goals and restrictions? There is a difference between you not liking
something for a personal reason, and objectively "bad design". You are
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