Re: Help with GPG implementation

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On Mon, 03 Jul 2000 03:03:14 Peter A. Kimball wrote:
> Hello all.
> 
> It's been a while since I last emailed this list and I just wanted to
> bring you up to speed on the status of encryption in Balsa.  For those
> who don't know or remember, I am a college student majoring in Computer
> Science who received a grant to do a project over the summer.  My
> project has been to implement an encryption system within Balsa. (I
> emailed the list back on 4/24 to ask for permission).
> 
> The current status seems to be that I have chosen GPG to be the
> encryption program, and I hope people will be happy with that.  I have
> recently finished (I think) the functions to do the GPG interactions,

What are you doing ? Invoking gpg as an external program ? That is Wrong.
Actually, that is wrong in 2 ways. Way 1 is you shouldn't (need to) invoke
gpg. There is something called libgcrypt on gpg1.1 that adresses that.
Way 2 is you shouldn't just be writting support for balsa. It's almost as easy

to write gpg support for gnome.
That's why i started Zurich. Zurich is the gnome security framework, or to 
put it simple, something gnome apps can use to access crypto services, namely
gpg. Unfortunatly Zurich now is an advogato page, a rough sketch and an email
to the gcrypt list asking what's the devel status. Yes, it's 100% vapourware
:)

So as a stop gap maybe doing it the Wrong way may not be bad, particularly
since the GUI code is usefull. 
And please do send patches to the list :)

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