TOFU: interacting with the user

Neal H. Walfield neal at walfield.org
Thu Oct 22 16:04:49 CEST 2015


At Thu, 22 Oct 2015 15:52:01 +0200,
Werner Koch wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Oct 2015 15:29, neal at walfield.org said:
> 
> > Pinentry supports 3 options (buttons).  TOFU requires 5 options.  This
> > issue is orthogonal to any policy decision that we may or may not
> 
> Put an to fix technical restriction.  Still I don't like thyat idea.

I'm not sure I understand.

> >> Similar to what we have now: "yes", "no" ;-)
> >
> > I'm not sure what you are referring to here.
> 
> What I mean is that we do not use the Pinentry to ask for "yes" or "no"
> in this case ("Use key anyway?")

When TOFU asks whether to use the key, it's not a yes or no question.
There are five options.

Thanks,

:) Neal



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