Re: gpg support

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On 2001.08.15 14:30:04 +0100 christophe barbe wrote:
> Yes this is a recurring topic.
> We need GPG support in balsa.
> 
> The integration is not trivial.
> I believe that the code to dialog with GPG is not a problem (perhaps with
> gpgme library).

That is one of the big problems. All code to talk with gpg now is *crap*, not
in the measure of quality of code but in the measure of what Koch thinks it's
the correct way of talking to gpg. All stuff i've seen to talk with gnupg
use's
Werner's pipe method wich IMHO is cumbersome and plain stupid.

> The difficulties come from RFC compliance.
> 
> I would like to work on it but I've not yet found the time to read the
> RFCs.
>

given enough reading, that should go away ;)
 
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