Someone finally made a user-friendly Kleopatra equivalent: PGP Manager (github.com)
from Dymonika@beehaw.org to privacy@lemmy.ml on 17 Jun 16:48
https://beehaw.org/post/26926776

This now makes me wonder: is there a QR generator that maps out a grid of numbers and letters to help you draw it manually on graph paper with paper or pen or marker? That’d be kinda fun to use with this and completely baffle people in the wild by leaving literally E2E-encrypted messages for friends in public areas lolll.

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nasteva@jlai.lu on 18 Jun 03:55 next collapse

Why not use a printer?

Dymonika@beehaw.org on 18 Jun 07:26 collapse

Look at this fat cat who can afford ink these days! (That’s a /r/Frugal_Jerk reference)

kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 18 Jun 10:51 next collapse

Whats wrong with kleopatra?

Dymonika@beehaw.org on 19 Jun 04:46 collapse

It’s painful to use and understand? There is no step-by-step process…

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 18 Jun 11:20 collapse

Kleopatra has worked just fine for me though…

ShutUpWesley@piefed.zip on 18 Jun 23:25 next collapse

It can be a barier to entry for new / non-technical users. In the past when I’ve worked with activism groups to setup secure comms Kleopatra has been difficult for people unfamiliar with encryption to figure out. It’s always good to lower the barrier to entry for these kinds if applications.

Dymonika@beehaw.org on 19 Jun 04:45 collapse

Really? Kleopatra was such a pain for me to figure out. We want normies using this stuff, not just computer programmers.

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 19 Jun 13:53 collapse

It took me a few minutes of messing around with it to understand how it works, but once I did, it became very easy for what I was using it for. I am not a programmer.

Mostly just copy/pasting onto the scratch board, then choosing which key to use to decrypt (or encrypt), then copying the results.

Adding a new public key by copying it and adding it from the clipboard was also very easy.

Dymonika@beehaw.org on 19 Jun 17:42 collapse

Okay, well you’re smarter than the general populace because I’ve read multiple comments online about how difficult this program is to use, so I know I’m not alone. Any competition is better than none.