Multiple Smartcards - Signing

Matthew Monaco matt at monaco.cx
Sun May 3 21:21:48 CEST 2015


On 05/03/2015 01:16 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On Sun 2015-05-03 06:35:37 -0400, MFPA wrote:
>> On Saturday 2 May 2015 at 3:36:47 AM, in <mid:87vbgb7lj4.fsf at alice.fifthhorseman.net>, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>>
>>>  https://bugs.gnupg.org/gnupg/issue1967
>>
>> Do you think a notification should be displayed, something like
>> "Signing subkey 0x01234567 not available. Creating signature using key
>> 0x89abcdef instead"?
> 
> I don't have much of a preference.  Such a message should probably
> appear if the user has asked for --debug-level basic at least, though.
> 
>        --dkg
> 

I agree with a debug message. But in general I don't think a notification is so
important because the selection algorithm is arbitrary anyway. E.g., why not
strongest rather than newest?


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