Sam Varshavchik wrote:
I miss the days when gpg needed a passphrase it simply prompted a
message
on standard output, turned off tty echo, and just read the password that I
typed in.
But that was too simple, primitive, and bulletproof. I guess that things
can't be as simple any more, and the forward march of progress is
unstoppable.
That approach simply does not work for GUI applications.
Believe it or not, GNU/Linux is no longer a text-only operating system, nor
are window managers just a container for terminal emulators. :-)
Kevin Kofler