[Cialug] I Can't GnuPG

Thomas Kula kula at tproa.net
Thu Aug 4 21:45:16 UTC 2022


CLIs are also a User eXperience. I don't think PGP's or the GnuGP
implementation of it is particularly user amenable. Personally, at
least.


On Thu, Aug 04, 2022 at 03:00:42PM -0500, David Champion wrote:
> GUI? Nah, I've always just managed it from the CLI.
> 
> -dc
> 
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 2:11 PM Thomas Kula <kula at tproa.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Aug 04, 2022 at 01:57:50PM -0400, Todd Walton wrote:
> > > You know what I've looked at a million times and *still* haven't figured
> > > out? Gnu-frickin-PG. Why is PGP so hard?
> >
> > Because it was built in the 1990s with the UX of a diseased goat.
> >
> > I make heavy use of gopass, GPG, and having my key on a YubiKey 4.
> > I've been doing this since ... looks like 2017 -
> > https://kula.tproa.net/lnt/computers/gpg/gpg-and-yubikey.html
> >
> > But these days as soon as age-encryption.org supports having a private
> > key in something like a YubiKey, I'm nuking my PGP key from orbit.
> >
> >
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