gpgshell and gnupg 2.x? (trusted: wk at gnupg.org)

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Mon Jun 8 09:26:20 CEST 2009


On Sat,  6 Jun 2009 10:27, maniams at gmail.com said:

> Do we increase risk (risk of attacks, risk of errors etc ) by using front
> ends ?

That is hard to tell.  Every extra line of code adds the risk of a new
error; thus frontends are risky.  However, most errors are due to user
errors and thus a good frontend will actually reduce the risk of errors.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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