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Out of interest; why do you care about GnuPG decryption specifically? (I write cryptographic software. I care about usability. I might want to provide people wi
by lvh 10y ago
Out of interest; why do you care about GnuPG decryption specifically? (I write cryptographic software. I care about usability. I might want to provide people with GnuPG-compatible crypto, but that's not necessarily where I'd start.)
- mindcrime 10y agoI'm working on a SaaS offering where I might need to be able to email sensitive information to customers. Or even just make it available for download. In either case, I'd like the data to be encrypted. So I'm planning to ask users to upload a PGP/GPG compatible public key so that we can encrypt this stuff for them. I'm focused on GnuPG specifically just because it's freely available, well known, available on all the important platforms, etc.
- cpach 10y agoJust a word of caution: If your customers are on Windows, using Gpg4win might not be a very smooth experience. I just helped someone to install that package and I found the UX to be really suboptimal. For one, it’s GTK-based, which makes it stick out like a sore thumb in a Windows environment.
- mindcrime 10y agoYep, that's part of the risk of this. I thought about that, but decided to give it a go on the basis of thinking that the people using this service will be pretty tech savvy, and will be OK with installing and using some variant of GPG or the commercial PGP. If that proves not to be the case we'll come up with a different approach.