GPA development

[Werner Koch]

Hi,

On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:

> a) Keyring management and the management of files management are largely
> different tasks. They should be divided into separate tools. 

Agreed - however it should also work as a standalone tool.

> Note that this might be very difficult in practice.

:-)

> b) The keyring management dialog should transparently show
> all important information in one window. 

Not all - Did you read the Whitten report on the PGP GUI.  
One important thing is still missing:  An option (which is enabled by
default) to suppress most information - the standard mode; the other
information should only be shown in expert mode.

> 	6. Show a nice counter/clock to give a visual impression on the
> 		remaining time of passphrase validity.

I don't understand this.  There is no such concept of a passphrase
validity.

> d) Help for novice users:

All are very important.

> So what can we do in the next few days?

I don't know - I will be away from all computing equipment from
tomorrow to Monday morning.

> trust levels:
> 	Unknown
> 	don't trust
> 	trust marginally
> 	fully trust

Please don't mix up the trust level and the key validity:
I prefer to say "assigned owner trust" for the 4 leveles you give.
They are  parameters needed to calcualte the validity of a key - the
answer on the question "how far do you trust the owner of this key to
correctly sign other keys and whether she understands all the
implications" [quite long question and not easy for the user].

For the calculated validity (sometimes also called trut in GnuPG :-()
there should be only 2 values:

   o  Key is valid
   o  Key is NOT valid

The use of the term "valid" has been proposed by some folks who
regulary do courses on PGP and this should make it much easier for a
user to  understand what this mesag is about (who understands what:
"The key is marginally trusted"? - replace it by the key is NOT
valid).

> and should I commit all changes in Exp branch (when they compile
> and are stable)?

Sure.

  Werner


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