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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 51798] Usability: passphrase dialog pops up too early
From:       Luciano Montanaro <mikelima () virgilio ! it>
Date:       2003-09-23 2:39:07
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------- Additional Comments From mikelima@virgilio.it  2003-09-23 04:39 -------
Subject: Re:  Usability: passphrase dialog pops up too early

On Monday 22 September 2003 19:47, you wrote:

> ------- Additional Comments From bernhard@intevation.de  2003-09-22 19:47
> ------- I consider it a wish.
> I have many emails which are encrypted.
>
> Running gpg-agent, I just enter you two passwords
> at the beginning of a session hitting the first emails
>  and then I use a sensible time to live
> in the cache setting, deleting gpg-agent when I close the session.
>
> Entering the password once every 30 minutes or whatever
> setting you choose does not seem overly disruptive to the user.

But in this case you are trading your privacy for compfort. 
I could use a similar setting if I trusted the environment, but the fact that 
I receive an encrypted mail means I do not trust the environment too much.

However, I'd like to hilight the inconsistency of treatment of encrypted mail 
and html mail. HTML mail is diplayed raw by default, because of privacy 
concerns, while you propose to display a private mail - it is encrypted, so 
it IS private - without ever asking? 

The consitent way of handling this is to show the message raw, and let the 
user choose if he wants to decrypt the mail or not.
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