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Re:21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to ... by stormbrew on Friday September 18, 2020 @02:58AM (#24513745)
I use pass and I would switch in a heartbeat to a fork of it that used ssh keys or something similar instead of gpg. For something so amazingly simple and useful, its dependence on the klunky mess that is gpg key management is an anchor that weighs it down.
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Re:21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to ... by somedude11 on Friday September 18, 2020 @03:30AM (#24513963)
Key management is a burden in every cryptosystem. I'm using KeePass and can recommend it, it works well.
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Re:21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to ... by wglb on Friday September 18, 2020 @02:33PM (#24520294)
Would you know if it failed?
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Re:21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to ... by somedude11 on Saturday September 19, 2020 @06:02PM (#24530601)
If it would "fail" and there would be no consequences so I could't tell if it failed or not - would it make a difference?
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Re:21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to ... by wglb on Sunday September 20, 2020 @08:10PM (#24538520)
If the failure were discovered by you a year later, realizing that all you thought was protected was in an adversary's hands.

I'm suggesting that "seems fine so far" is not effective at evaluating solidity of cryptographical usage.

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