Re: [Evolution] Decryption & Signing - Version 1.2.0

[Ian Scott <ian pairowoodies com>]

On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 20:38, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:

> Evolution only supports PGP/MIME currently, S/MIME is planned but is a
> LOT of work to do. Also, I think Mozilla is the only client on Linux to
> even support it currently. The German Government is supposedly putting a
> lot of effort into writing support for mutt to do S/MIME but so far no
> one has offered to do that for us :-(
>
> We plan on trying to use the Mozilla security libraries to implement
> S/MIME (or at least, that's what I had started to implement S/MIME in
> for Evolution a year and a half ago or so but stopped because their
> library interfaces kept changing).
>
> Even using the Mozilla nss libraries, it will take probably a good 6
> months to a year to implement and we just don't have the resources
> currently. There are more important things to do...
>
> There have been a few people that have volunteered to work on it, but
> they have all gone incommunicado.

Thanks, Jeff, for the information.  Wish I had enough knowledge to help
out with this.  It is good to know that there are plans to implement
S/MIME in the future.

Now, anyone have any ideas regarding points #1 and 2 with the latest
version of Evolution?  I hope this is a bug that can be fixed.  I don't
like the thought of having to save encrypted email to a file to be
manually decrypted!

Thanks,
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Ian Scott <ian pairowoodies com>