Re: [ESD-translators] Outdated Guide

[Thérèse Godefroy]

Hello Linus,

Thank you for the heads up. I forwarded your message to the FSF 
Campaigns Team <campaigns@fsf.org>, who is in charge of this guide.

Best regards,
Thérèse
(French translator)


Le 16/08/2023 à 09:43, Linus Warnatz a écrit :
> 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