Comments on: gnome-gpg improvement http://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2006/01/12/gnome-gpg-improvement/ Random stuff Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:53:32 +0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Adam Schreiber http://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2006/01/12/gnome-gpg-improvement/comment-page-1/#comment-99 Adam Schreiber Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2006/01/12/gnome-gpg-improvement/#comment-99 James,<p/>I was wondering if gnome-gpg's functionality shouldn't be integrated with Seahorse in some manner.<p/>Adam James,

I was wondering if gnome-gpg’s functionality shouldn’t be integrated with Seahorse in some manner.

Adam

]]> By: James Henstridge http://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2006/01/12/gnome-gpg-improvement/comment-page-1/#comment-100 James Henstridge Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2006/01/12/gnome-gpg-improvement/#comment-100 Adam: gnome-gpg serves a fairly different purpose to Seahorse. It acts as a wrapper for gpg that lets you store your passphrase in the Gnome keyring. So if you have a script or program that wants to invoke gpg, you can drop in gnome-gpg instead.<p/>In contrast, Seahorse is designed as a GUI for performing encryption/decryption/signing/verification. It doesn't really overlap that much.<p/>The one place where they could cooperate is in the names of the keys they store in gnome-keyring. If those match, then the user would only need to type their passphrase in once for both uses. Adam: gnome-gpg serves a fairly different purpose to Seahorse. It acts as a wrapper for gpg that lets you store your passphrase in the Gnome keyring. So if you have a script or program that wants to invoke gpg, you can drop in gnome-gpg instead.

In contrast, Seahorse is designed as a GUI for performing encryption/decryption/signing/verification. It doesn’t really overlap that much.

The one place where they could cooperate is in the names of the keys they store in gnome-keyring. If those match, then the user would only need to type their passphrase in once for both uses.

]]> By: Anonymous http://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2006/01/12/gnome-gpg-improvement/comment-page-1/#comment-101 Anonymous Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2006/01/12/gnome-gpg-improvement/#comment-101 Any chance of making use of gpg-agent if available? I prefer to store my GPG passphrase in gpg-agent. Any chance of making use of gpg-agent if available? I prefer to store my GPG passphrase in gpg-agent.

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