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Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Sat Dec 18 09:52:59 CET 2004


On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:11:41 -0500 (EST), Adam Schreiber said:

> Shouldn't the goal of GPGME be to extend the power of the command line to
> users who choose to use a GUI or other tools to manage their keys?

Or secret key[1] should only be stored at one place.  Everything else
is only for people who really know what they are doing.  And they
wouldn't ask for GUI tool then.

  Werner


[1] When I talk about a "secret key" I mean what's commonly also noted
as the "private key", i.e. the private part of an asymmetric key pair.
I don't mean a "shared secret" as used for symmetric encryption.




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