On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 11:19 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > Hi Luke-- > > Thanks for offering to package pius. It sounds like it does a very > similar job to /usr/bin/caff from the signing-party package. > > i'm happy to see some friendly competition spring up in this space > (hopefully both tools can benefit from ideas of the other), but i was > wondering if you could clarify the differences in functionality between > the two tools. > > Regards, > > --dkg > Ah. I knew this would come up at some point ;) At this point, the two main differences I see is that: A) PIUS allows you to loop through all keys on a keyring, asking if you want to sign each one. If yes, it invokes the gpg command to do so. B) PIUS *seems* to be more configurable in respect to the way it sends mail. I have not looked at caff's mail config in great depth, but from what I have seen, this is true. I know this may be a small difference, but having used both tools, I prefer PIUS (no offense to caff's authors) for signing keys after a party. I would like to see the package accepted just so that there is a choice the users can make. That said, I am open to counter-arguments. Thanks, -- Luke Cycon <lcycon@gmail.com>
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