Quoting John Ridge Cook ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > compatibility. Also while being in development for about 3 years, none of > the authors feel its necessary for a consistent, official, average user > friendly GUI. There are several front ends available, but their reliability > in various operating environments differ, as do the openness of their source > code.
Frontends introduce yet another layer of insecurity. Introducing insecurity defeats the purpose of a program such as GPG. Writing closed code does that, too, so both the existing closed code frontends as well as the stuff available for the rightfully so deceased PGP-perversion, are to be considered an abomination, not an improvement. I cannot count how many frontends I have found for both Windows and Mac OS, that cached __passphrases in cleartext__ or forgot to safely wipe all traces of its execution opon exit from memory and swap, something that I would consider really bad bahavior. Frontends for a program that can be controlled without any problems with the use of no more than ten arguments, are anything but a necessity.
