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Gnupg is easy to use. Incredibly easy. All common use cases that new tools have are extremely straight forward. There is a lot of features that you can get dee
by georgyo 5y ago
Gnupg is easy to use. Incredibly easy. All common use cases that new tools have are extremely straight forward.
There is a lot of features that you can get deep into the weeds with. But the common use cases are dirt simple.
Put another way, it would be easier to teach a grandparent how to use gnupg than it would be to teach something like age.
- samuel-lucas6 5y agoI think incredibly easy is a bit far. Look at how many commands and options there are in total: https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manpage.html https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manpage.html. Beyond that, the website isn't the easiest to navigate, and the guides they have linked are quite wordy. You simply cannot argue that it's user friendly overall. However, I'll admit that my original wording was too harsh in the case of simple encryption. I also agree that GPG with that command is slightly easier than age, although the documentation for age could be better in my opinion. GUI applications will always be best for the average user. The other point of new tools is to make changes to the file formats, cryptographic algorithms, etc and reduce the number of lines of code to make things more auditable.