[Users] Use WKD through GPGME

[Christoph Klassen]

On 07.11.21 12:49, Paul wrote:
>> But when a person did enable a privacy system, it shows that encryption is
>> important to this person.
> Yes, but that does not mean that they want to encrypt or even sign every
> message they write. In fact, I'd wager, mostly they do not sign/encrypt.
Maybe you're right, but the chance is bigger that they also want to 
receive some keys.
> I don't think even gnupg itself allows an attempt at fetching a key for
> some email address you might want to use for encrypting. This sort of
> automation could and probably would lead to (costly) mistakes.

I don't mean to automate the whole process, but I it would make the 
process easier. The user would enter an email address. He* doesn't have 
the key of that address, so he right-clicks on the email address and 
selects an entry like "Retrieve key...". Then the same process as if the 
user would click on the application/pgp-signature icon you mentioned in 
your first reply.

When this action is not available, the user has to open the terminal and 
enter the command (if a user doesn't use it very often, he first has to 
read how to do it correctly). Then the user can return to claws mail.

When I'm thinking about this case I also think of programs like 
Photoshop or Blender. They offer the possibility to adapt the interface 
to the task the user has to complete. But they don't have to make the 
adaption themselves. They only have to tell the program that they, for 
example, want to work on the layout. In some way when a user enables a 
privacy system, he tells that he want to do something with encryption. 
That's why I think that an additional entry (only when enabling the 
privacy system) when right-clicking would be helpful.

> You seem to be raising the old argument that if gpg was easier to use then
> more people would use it, but this has not been seen to be the case as far as
> I'm aware.

I'm not sure. Maybe it depends on how much easier the process will be 
made. But maybe there is no way to make encryption easy enough, so that 
much more people will use it. Still, an improvement of the usability 
would be good for people, who want to use encryption. Maybe there will 
be more external factors that lead to more people want encryption.


Greetings,

Christoph


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