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Re:NeoPG – an opiniated fork of GnuPG 2 by akvadrako on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @03:08PM (#16171311)
GPG has a terrible user interface, and it's really hard to script too. It takes a complicated workflow and makes it unbearable.
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Re:NeoPG – an opiniated fork of GnuPG 2 by jopsen on Thursday January 18, 2018 @12:40AM (#16174951)
+1, a cleanup of the GPG cli interface would do wonders..

Just reorganizing existing commands into subcommands like 'gpg encrypt' instead of 'gpg --encrypt' :)

As for key management, keyrings and trust, I think a proper UI with decent explanations would help a lot too. This isn't rocket science, but it's too hard to guess what various abbreviations mean.

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