Bug: Unusable key

[Chris Fox]

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gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
| On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 10:41:28AM -0800, Steve Butler wrote:

| I really don't like this extremist, all or nothing approach. It's
| very easy for that error message to cite a few of the *probable*
| reasons (expired, revoked, maybe a subkey) and save the user time in
| figuring out what broke. It's really just not necessary to cover all
| the bases for the error messages to be qualitatively better.

I think the idea that an informative error message will help a hacker is
malarky.  Anyone trying to hack is going to be stepping through the gpg
source code in a debugger and is not even going to be *reading* the
error messages.

I vote for a completely detailed explanation to the user.
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Chris Fox, Windows User, Linux User (#341856), non-partisan
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