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
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