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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:       2003-10-02 12:00:34
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------- Additional Comments From mikelima@virgilio.it  2003-10-02 14:00 -------
Subject: Re:  Usability: passphrase dialog pops up too early

On Thursday 02 October 2003 12:25, you wrote:
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> ------- Additional Comments From bernhard@intevation.de  2003-10-02 12:25
> ------- I don't completely understand your line of proposed difficulties
> with the current status.
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>  > 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.
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> If you don't trust the environment, you should not read the encrypted
> emails there. If people can control your kmail while you are sitting in
> front of your computer, they will be able to read the emails they want to
> read anyway. They will just do a different crypto operation when you try to
> decrypt an email. The only case where a long time to life is suboptimal is,
> when you leave the machine, but in that case you can make your screensaver
> kill the gpg-agent.
>
> I'm not deeply in the HTML debate, but I was under the impression
> that HTML formatting itself can be malicious, which is not possible
> with the content of an encrypted email. So it would make sense to treat
> this differently.

Leaving this point aside, I still think current behaviour to be an usability 
bug.
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