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Re: PGP: difference between Kleopatra and Kgpg, both from KDE

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On 31.05.21 22:57, deloptes wrote:

>   apt-cache show kleopatra
>   apt-cache show kgpg

> I think the above parts of the package description explains quite well the
> use cases.
> 
> With kleopatra you manage certificates in KDE (such like SSL)
> With Kgpg you manage GPG keys and you can encrypt/decrypt GUI style text


Well, these descriptions partly cause my question. Following the package 
descriptions, Kgpg appears as the GUI frontend to GnuPG and in addition 
having a feature to input text into a field and to encrypt it right 
there instead of having to receive the input from a file, while 
Kleopatra appears to be kind of a GUI database manager for managing PGP 
keys and also X.509 certificates.

But installing them both and comparing there PGP related offers without 
understanding too much about the topic, Kleopatra seems, like Kgpg, the 
same being a GUI frontend to GnuPG, also including the feature for 
generating key pairs, and like Kgpg also having in addition a feature to 
input text into a field and to encrypt it right there instead of having 
to receive the input from a file.

To this extend it could simply be, that Kleopatra includes all Kgpg 
functionality and then as an extra adds management of also X.509 
functionality to it.
But if I compare the PGP settings which are offered in the GUI for 
creating a PGP key, then in detail this looks different in Kgpg and 
Kleopatra. Kleopatra seems to offer more options and is using more 
technical names for them, while Kgpg seems to offer a smaller amount of 
options and describes them more verbosely instead of using so much 
technical abbreviations. As a beginner it is very difficult to foresee 
if they are finally the same, with Kleopatra simply enhancing the amount 
of offered features in comparison to smaller Kgpg, Kgpg being kind of 
the tool for beginners and Kleopatra being the tool for experts, or if 
Kgpg is actually targeting work cases by its options in its GUI which 
are not addressed by Kleopatra like this.
It could even be that under the hood one is known to work more reliable 
or working closer to the openPGP standard or being more compatible to 
interface with other PGP tools or Apps wanting to use PGP.
I am here specially watching out for the PGP functionality and not 
considering that Kleopatra as an extra also offers X.509 functionality.

So, unfortunately I am still in need to find more information about the 
two different (or in the end not different?) GUI tools concerning their 
PGP functionality.

Many thanks for all the other explanations which you also gave in your 
answer, they have been helpful!
Marco.

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Re: PGP: difference between Kleopatra and Kgpg, both from KDE deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2021-05-31 23:00 +0200
  Re: PGP: difference between Kleopatra and Kgpg, both from KDE Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-01 10:50 +0200
  Re: PGP: difference between Kleopatra and Kgpg, both from KDE Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2021-06-01 12:50 +0200
    Re: PGP: difference between Kleopatra and Kgpg, both from KDE deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2021-06-01 14:20 +0200

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