[Gpg4win-devel] Kleo/Kgpg most complete in Linuxmagazin review, gpa and pinentry problems

[Dr. Peter Voigt]

Am Thu, 4 Apr 2013 09:29:43 +0200
schrieb Bernhard Reiter <bernhard at intevation.de>:

> Hi GnuPG-Devs,
> 
> Linuxmagazin 05/2013, pp50-54 has a GnuPG Frontend test in German.
> 
> The duo Kgpg/Kleopatra provides the most complete set of functions.
> Seahorse is recommended for unexperienced end users.
> Also reviewed were GPA and Pyrite.
> 
> There are a number of shortcoming listed that should be considered
> for instance the password quality in pinentry-qt that supposetly
> reports "123456789" as high quality password.
> Is this really the case, can we fix this?
> 
> GPA did not offer 2048 bits and writes an empty file when exorting
> several certificates. There also was a reproducable crash on OpenSuse
> 12.3.
> 
> If we want GnuPG to succeed, we should improve our frontends.
> What they did not test was, how the frontend connected to the backend.
> To my knowledge GPA and Kleo use the recommened way with gpgme.
> Kgpg does not, which often poses problems when used with gpg2 and gpg.
> What about Seahorse and Pyrite?
> 
> My hope is that Kleo gets improved to fully replace Kgpg some day.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Bernhard
> 
> 

Thanks for this information. I'd like to read the article, and have
just ordered it online as PDF for 0.99 € - in German language.
English editions of the Linux Magazine obviously differ in
content from the German version.

Regards,
Peter