trampCrypt family of CLI programs

[MichaelQuigley at TheWay.Org]

gnupg-users-bounces at gnupg.org wrote on 08/02/2012 04:35:31 AM:

> ----- Message from peter.segment at wronghead.com on Wed, 01 Aug 2012 
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> trampCrypt family of CLI programs
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> On 31/07/12 19:25, Robert J. Hansen - rjh at sixdemonbag.org wrote:
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> > Set up a trusted introducer/certificate authority and presto, bang,
> > you're off to the races.  When Alice comes on board at the company, 
the
> > local authority generates a certificate for her, sets up her
> > Thunderbird+Enigmail installation
> 
> Alice doesn't understand what a certificate is and hasn't got the
> time necessary to do so. 
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> start a CLI program with something like: 
> trampEncrypt -myKey=xyz.bin -key=bob.bin cleartext.file ciphertext.file
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> or:
> 
> trampDecrypt -myKey=xyz.bin ciphertext.file cleartext.file
> 

She needn't understand a certificate.  When she joins "the trusted 
introducer/certificate authority" sets it up for her.  I don't follow how 
she gets confused by a certificate she need not understand, yet she can 
remember then correctly and consistently type the commands you've outlined 
above.
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