Plain text keyring directory.

Posted Jan 21, 2026 23:43 UTC (Wed) by alx.manpages (subscriber, #145117)
In reply to: command line complexity by ballombe
Parent article: Responses to gpg.fail

This is also relatively inherent to the fact that gpg(1) uses a binary keyring unnecessarily.

I wish (and suggested in the mailing list some time ago) that the keyring was just a set of plain-text files, similar to how SSH works. That would as a side-effect (likely) make it more easy to specify different files for a given use, or maybe even stdin.