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[ESD-translators] Outdated Guide
From: |
Linus Warnatz |
Subject: |
[ESD-translators] Outdated Guide |
Date: |
Wed, 16 Aug 2023 09:43:34 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Mozilla Thunderbird |
While this is not really a translation problem, I am sending this here,
as I could not find an email address on the website: The guide is out of
date. This starts in referencing the SKS Keyserver Pool, which was taken
down in 2021. While the macOS installation guide references brew, the
Windows one uses the GPG4Win installer, which is also available on
winget. The "Upload your key" section does not specify a keyserver,
which is not relevant anyways, as the OpenPGP keyserver discards UIDs
when the key is uploaded in this way. This however breaks the official
GnuPG client, which discards UID-less keys.
Furthermore, and I noticed this while guiding someone through creating a
key, the new default option for a cipher, at least on macOS, is elliptic
curve (which isn't even an option in the provided screenshot).
Thunderbird (being wrongly referenced as Icedove) also now uses a new
UI, and provides integrated GPG/PGP support.
I also have a suggestion: The guide currently does not tell you how to
add a second UID, or that you can transfer your key to a smartcard or
security key. This should at least be hinted at with a sentence like
"You can set further options by running gpg --edit-key your@email in a
terminal window."
Best,
Linus
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