Re: Balsa Encrypts messages with GnuPG!

[Oliver Oberdorf <oly tkk att ne jp>]

With all respect,

I don't think balsa will be free of mutt for some time.  People have wanted
PGP support in balsa for *ages*.  Others have repeatedly shot down the
idea of using lubmutt's PGP with this argument, but /nobody/ has time to do
it this way and libmutt seems to still very much a part of balsa.  Now that
someone is 90% done with the obvious approach, I see no reason to stop 
him.

Plus, mutt is time-tested and I see no reason to think a from scratch
implementation will work better.  More flexible for developers; maybe.
Better integrated with gnome PGP; obviously.  Ready in 3 months or
less; not likely.

Anyway, as for the libbalsa approach:

It seems to support both encrypt-it-all and encrypt-each-attachment
(PGP/MIME).  PGP/MIME is obviously preferred, but decrypting both
styles might be good, if it is easy to handle both.

Regards,
-Oly

P.S. Alan's signature verified in kmail (I'm so ashamed!)

On Wednesday 03 January 2001 18:35, Brian Stafford wrote:
> Rather than trusting libmutt to do the right thing and for more background
> on how to do this sort of thing, try reading RFC 1847 "Security Multiparts
> for MIME: Multipart/Signed and Multipart/Encrypted" and RFC 2015 "MIME
> Security with Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)".  These documents and the ones
> they reference provide everything needed to implement a solution from
> scratch. I always find that the standards are more informative than reading
> source code which is usually wrong, incomplete or buggy, despite the
> authors' best intentions.
>
> This is not to put down libmutt or the PGP code using it, I felt the issue
> needs raising because of the nature of some of the queries raised here.
>
> In any case, I thought Balsa was moving away from the use of libmutt.  A
> better solution might be to use gmime and pgg and avoid using libmutt.
> It should be noted that S/MIME uses exactly the same MIME structures as
> PGP/MIME so this would be easy to add into such a framework.  (I have
> written code to do S/MIME in the past.  I don't have time right now, but I
> may be able to contribute in this area in the future.)
>
>
> --
> Brian Stafford
>
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