On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 12:55 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > The panel applet was created because a lot of my friends indicated that
> > a barrier to using encryption for their email was that they use web mail
> > a significant amount of the time. The panel applet allows the user to
> > copy text perform an encryption operation on it and paste the new text
> > to a field or in the case of reading mail display the text in a window
> > via a preference setting. In any case the applet has to be added by a
>
> Wouldn't a better integration be a web browser plugin, that allows
> people to encrypt what's in a text field?
Agreed. That would be a great Epiphany extension in the context menu of
a text entry.
> > >> * Rendezvous based key sharing to share a pool of keys on a network
> > >
> > > I guess you mean "Bonjour" here
> >
> > Bonjour, Howl, Avahi, DNS-SD whichever the term you like, but we use Avahi.
>
> Bonjour is the trademarked name for the technology. The "free" name is
> Zeroconf. Howl and Avahi are implementations of that standard, DNS-SD is
> a different technology.
Also I believe Rendezvous was trademarked by another company so Apple
had to rename it to Bonjour in OS X 10.something.
Ross
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