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<font color="000000"><font size="3"><font face="trebuchet ms">Dear
GNUPG developers,<br>
<br>
We have GOT TO make things simpler.<br>
<br>
1/ I do have some years of experience with GnuPG. Especially
with convincing people to use it. It is not easy. But I do it
because it is in my interest to be able to communicate
privately.<br>
2/ My latest experience is with a person who sent me his
entire keypair per email. I had asked him to send me his
public key only. I had instructed him how to prepare that file
("export public key, do NOT export the secret half of the
keypair. Ensure this by ticking the right boxes. If you use
GPA do it like this, if you use Kleopatra, follow those menu
trails, if you use GPG Tools I do not know."). The person who
made the horror of sending his secret key over email is
properly educated.<br>
3/ Please do appreciate that the persons who we are convincing
and instructing are not particularly interested in privacy.
They need simple approaches.<br>
<br>
4/ Here is my proposal:<br>
4.1/ Stimulate that people use a GUI like GPA or Kleopatra.
Not Enigmail, although it offers the same, but it offers too
much for beginners. Email integration comes after people have
a basic understanding. Please do appreciate if people only
want to be able to prepare encrypted documents for sending
them as attachments.<br>
4.2/ Ensure that, when generating a keypair, GnuPG creates one
directory "Secretkeys", and one directory "Publickeys". Make
GnuPG to store the public part and the secret part separately
in those directories. If GnuPG needs also keypairs in a single
file, store that under Secretkeys.<br>
4.3/ Get rid of the confusing menu/Exportkeys/ vs
menu/Exportsecretkey. etc.<br>
4.5/ Get rid of the options to NOT publish keys on keyservers.
Just work the opt-in alternative: If you want to publish to
keyservers, make that a separate action that requires some
effort.<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
<br>
Roland</font></font></font><br>
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