Re: [Evolution] PGP/Encryption? (and X.509)

[Alan <alan ufies org>]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 08:01:46AM -0500, Michael Gerdts wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 04:59:51PM -0500, Scott Miga wrote:
> > Is there any sort of PGP or encryption support for Evolution?
> > 
> > I havent checked to see if GnuPGP will work yet. 
> 
> I would also be interested in knowing if there is any work underway to make
> it work with X.509 certficates.  In the corporate world X.509, S/MIME, and
> PKI are words that tend to carry more weight than PGP or GPG.  I think that
> this is a fairly critical area for evolution to be able to compete with
> Netscape and Notes (and likely others) in the client arena.

Ditto here.  The problem is not so much that PGP/GPG is bad, my ex-hacker boss
loves them, the problem is lack of support.  I think that you can shoehorn pgp
into outlook, maybe, but not eudora (or is it the other way around).  Either
way it's not easy from what I saw.  Also there is no pgp support for netscape
mail, which I personally hate, but the boss loves.  So ATM it's X509 for our
company :(  Hopefully evo supports this soon!

> If this is just a matter of having hooks available to execute the proper
> commands, I think that openssl provides all the necessary commands.  They
> could use some gui and text wrappers for signing, encrypting, managing
> trusted certificate authorities, managing revocation lists, etc.

Yep, absolutely correct.  One of the guys here used openssl for a webmail
program that supports full encryption/signing/decryption, etc, all through
openssl commands :)

Alan

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