Re: making the passphrase prompt more clear

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On 09/03/2014 07:42 AM, Alex Bligh wrote:
> 
> On 3 Sep 2014, at 12:05, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> What a *sensible* person! Kudos to you for catching just the sort of
>> thing that irritates or confuses people, especially new users.
>>
>> I'd suggest "Enter passphrase for key (empty for no passphrase)"
> 
> +1 on both points. Save that I'd perhaps say
> 
>  "Enter new passphrase for key (empty for none)"
> 
> "new" because otherwise it can be construed as asking for an
> existing passphrase, and "none" because it's shorter.

I like Alex's wording.  It's concise, and it avoids the ambiguity of the
current prompt.

Thanks for raising this, Aidan!

	--dkg

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