GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)

[Patrick]

@onion_knight

1. gpa as a replacement for kgpg

To me, having a GUI pgp program is wholly part of the Whonix experience. I really think it serves the purpose of Whonix. Instead of kgpg and its dependencies, I would suggest to include the gpa program, a very lightweight and user-friendly GUI gpg tool:

It only takes 2,153 kB of free space and needs only two packages ( gpa and gpgsm ). Works well, I have just tested it:

add gpa to whonix-workstation-packages-recommended-gui

[Patrick]

Nowadays gpa Depends: on gnupg which then Depends: on gpg-wks-server, gpg-wks-client, gpgsm, gnupg-utils, gnupg-l10n.

[arraybolt3]

Unfortunately, GPA will have to be removed from Whonix 18, as it has been removed from Debian Trixie due to lack of maintenance. See Debian Package Tracker, https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1089914. The suggested replacement, KDE’s Kleopatra, pulls in somewhere around 280 MB of dependencies due to reliance on KDE libraries.