Re: [Evolution] Re: Encryption Interoperability (was: should we support pgp interfaces?)

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 13:45, Steve Murphy wrote:
[snip]
> Here's some of my observations:
>
> 1. evolution evaluates encryption in the wrong place in the dataflow,
> and therefore has a difficult time verifying signatures. The dataflow
> reformats the letter, like modifying the line widths, etc, and would
> probably have been better to check the original message at the front of
> the dataflow instead. Fejj, I think,  has been working on this, and I
> think he knows all about the limitations, and apparently, it will take a
> lot of work to re-do this, if it ever gets done.

this is already completed in CVS, and in fact, seems to work better than
mutt ;-)

I'm now working on making the gpg interfaces better by presenting the
user with key information in the passphrase prompt and allowing up to 3
tries to get the passphrase correct (gpg only allows 3 tries and then
aborts).

I've also been saving information such as 'trust' in the backend, but as
of yet have no way of displaying this information in the front-end. I'm
not actually sure how badly this is even needed as we display gpg's
stderr which basically contains all this information anyway. Only reason
I'm fiddling with parsing/saving this data is that my state-machine was
wasting 24 bits of data and I figured I'd put it to good use ;-)

Jeff

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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
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