Re: [Evolution] PGP/Encryption? (and X.509)

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On 06 Mar 2001 08:01:46 -0500, Michael Gerdts wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 04:59:51PM -0500, Scott Miga wrote:
> > Is there any sort of PGP or encryption support for Evolution?
> >
> > I havent checked to see if GnuPGP will work yet. 
>
> I would also be interested in knowing if there is any work underway to make
> it work with X.509 certficates.  In the corporate world X.509, S/MIME, and
> PKI are words that tend to carry more weight than PGP or GPG.  I think that
> this is a fairly critical area for evolution to be able to compete with
> Netscape and Notes (and likely others) in the client arena.
>
> If this is just a matter of having hooks available to execute the proper
> commands, I think that openssl provides all the necessary commands.  They
> could use some gui and text wrappers for signing, encrypting, managing
> trusted certificate authorities, managing revocation lists, etc.


We cannot use openssl due to licensing, we are going to use NSS instead.
However, S/MIME is to be worked on very soon at least.