Implications of a common private keys directory in 2.1

[MFPA]

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On Saturday 3 December 2016 at 2:35:09 PM, in
<mid:17f5cadc-c7fb-c43a-a141-5d269ab45eaa at digitalbrains.com>, Peter
Lebbing wrote:-


> An option --only-try-secret <keyID> would solve both
> (your software
> would know which to try for a given nym account), but
> such an option is
> not available. You could try to make the case that
> such an option would
> be a good idea to implement. It would serve more
> scenarios than just
> yours. For instance, people with smartcards could use
> it when a message
> is also encrypted to an on-disk key, when they can't
> or don't want to
> insert their smartcard. And if somebody knows which
> key is the hidden
> recipient, but has multiple secret keys, it would
> save them declining
> all the dialogs for the keys that aren't the recipient.

If the recipients are hidden, doesn't GnuPG first try the key set with
- --default-key, followed by any keys set with --try-secret-key? That is
sufficient for your smartcard and known-hidden-key examples, but not
for Caro's situation. And I don't think --try-secret-key can be
followed by --skip-hidden-recipients to mean "try this/these key(s)
and if they won't decrypt it, give up on hidden recipients".


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MFPA                  <mailto:2014-667rhzu3dc-lists-groups at riseup.net>

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