Re: GNU Privacy Handbook typo
On Fri, Jun 07, 2024 at 11:47:08PM -0500, Jacob Bachmeyer via Gnupg-users wrote: > Few English-as-a-foreign-language courses should be expected to > mention singular "they", so its use is inappropriate in documentation. There are lots of things that aren't taught in classrooms that still apply to the real world regardless of the subject. I don't expect people to know everything about English, but I do expect that people be open to learning new things, and anyone capable of learning English well enough to understand technical documentation should also be able to understand that "they" can be singular. I don't think it's all that different from understanding that "he" and its equivalents in many languages can be masculine and feminine depending on the context, a trait that's common to a lot of non-native English speakers' native languages. Eric ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org https://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: GNU Privacy Handbook typo
On Fri, Jun 07, 2024 at 06:03:22PM -0500, Jacob Bachmeyer via Gnupg-users wrote: > Strictly, "their" is plural in English No, it is not. "They" and "their" have been used as gender-neutral, singular pronouns for centuries. Even if that wasn't the case, it's widely accepted in modern colloquial usage. We can't just ossify the language because some people don't like that a word can have multiple, context-sensitive meanings. "They/their" isn't even unique in that manner when it comes to pronouns; "we" has been used as a singular pronoun for royalty for centuries, and "you" can be both singular and plural depending on the context -- at least in some American dialects. Eric ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org https://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: Is there built-in a way validate a signature against a specific key?
On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 11:14:06AM +0200, Werner Koch via Gnupg-users wrote: > On Tue, 23 Apr 2024 21:39, Eric Pruitt said: > > I have multiple public keys in my GPG keyring. When validating > > signatures, I sometimes want to validate them against a specific key so > > The classcc tool for this is gpgv with its --keyring option. This is > what for example Debian uses to validate signatures. I think this is what I'm already doing and what I meant when I wrote "I do this by creating a keyring that consists of only one key and using that [...]" or have I misunderstood what you suggested? > A newer way is the --assert-signer option we introduced with version > 2.4.1: Thanks, this does what I want. Eric ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org https://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Is there built-in a way validate a signature against a specific key?
I have multiple public keys in my GPG keyring. When validating signatures, I sometimes want to validate them against a specific key so if the file is signed by someone other than the individual or organization I expect, it will fail. Currently, I do this by creating a keyring that consists of only one key and using that, and some cursory searching didn't uncover any alternatives. If there still isn't a GPG option for validating a signature against a specific key, is there a particular reason it doesn't exist? Eric ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org https://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
