Feature proposal - image encryption

[Dirk Gottschalk]

Am Sonntag, den 06.01.2019, 23:42 +0100 schrieb Stefan Claas:
> On Sun, 06 Jan 2019 23:19:24 +0100, Dirk Gottschalk wrote:

> Hi Dirk,

> > > GnuPG is world standard for email and probably file encryption,
> > > so
> > > why not for image encryption too? :-)  
> > > At least it would not hurt to have such feature in GnuPG. ;-)  

> > Except for the weeks, months, or years, which were needed to
> > firstly implement the JPeg format, for example and the other ten
> > millions of picture formats out there in the world. ;)

> PNG is imho the current standard for Internet usage. Jpeg with its
> compression artifacts and other formats are also mentioned as not
> recommended to use with ImageMagick encryption.

Yes, I read it earlier. But, the picture formats have to be inplemented
anyways. and GPG is not intended to do this kind of file processing.

By the way, AFAIT it was you who said, GPG has to much functions and
options. ^^

Just kidding.


> > I see what you mean regarding to promotion and so on. But, under
> > the
> > line, it's not worth the trouble. ^^

> Well, it is Werner's baby, so not my job to decide. It was only a
> proposal and not meant as a must have request. 

Yes, it is Werners, and the rest of the core teams, decision. But this
does not keep us away from discussing such things.

Regards,
Dirk

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