Re: Proposal for Seahorse inclusion in GNOME 2.18

["Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro" <gjc inescporto pt>]

S� 2006-09-09 �22:04 +0000, Nate Nielsen escreveu:
> Seahorse is a encryption key manager for GNOME. It currently 'manages'
> PGP and SSH keys (work has been done on X.509 certificates [1]).
> 
> The Seahorse developers would like to propose Seahorse 0.9.x for
> inclusion in GNOME.

  +1

  I've been using seahorse for a long time; IMHO it certainly deserves a
place in GNOME.

> The Seahorse developers' long term goal is to make encryption easy to
> use within GNOME. Besides filling a need for a key manager, inclusion in
> GNOME would help us realize that goal. For example:
> 
>   * EDS Address book integration

  I was going to suggest that too :P

>   * About-me: 'my' encryption key selection
>   * More intelligent trust metrics based on frequency of use
> 
> Suggestions for how Seahorse can improve are welcome, as are ideas for
> making encryption easier for users.

  Once X.509 support is completed, I would love to see Evolution use
searhorse for managing all keys.  Right now Evo's key management is
really very poor: you can't change the pass phrase of your keys DB, and
there's even no option to export your own keys to a file; it's like a
black hole, once you import a key, you won't get it back, ever.

  Anyway.  Keep up the good work!

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Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
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