Re: [Evolution] possibly stupid PGP/GPG display question

[Iain<tigermilk btinternet com>]

> On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 10:37:02PM +0500, Dan Winship wrote:
> > We're still not quite sure what it will be, so if people have ideas, let
> > me know. :-)
>
> As I see it, the icon would be in the message's header, right-aligned.


That doesn't work if there's more than one piece of signed / unsigned
content in the mail.

> Since an embedded message's header can be forged (in an HTML message),
> clicking the 'Lock' icon would raise a dialog box which'll verify the
> messages' authenticity. I'm not sure how that could be prevented from
> forged messages as well (given that the keylock link would still be an
> HTML code piece which could be included in HTML mail).


Put an icon indicating signed/unsigned/good signature/bad signature into
the widget that does the hide show attachment thing, and maybe have a
"More details" option in the pop down menu. Neither of which can be
forged with HTML code.

iain