[Gpg4win-devel] Putty and ECDSA support for gpg-agent in 2.0

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Friday 05 July 2013 at 09:53:12, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Fri,  5 Jul 2013 09:28, bernhard at intevation.de said:
> > What is the rational for the default setting of the putty support,
> > which seems to be "off"?
>
> - The same is done under Unix for ssh

Same question. :)

> - After the installation of a new Gpg4win version an also installed
>   Pageant won't work anymore if gpg-agent has been started earlier.

Okay, I see the argument and consider options.

Let me state the problem again:
Our product should be very usable and its features should be exploreable.
Defaults should be as useful as possible.
So activating possible extra features by default usually is a good idea.

We don't do this for putty support because pageant would 
stop working for some users. How many people use pageant or have it installed?

Bernhard

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