Re: [Evolution] Outlook2000/PGP8.0 and Evolution1.4.5/GPG1.2.4

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

The problem is that Outlook is setup to use inline pgp
signatures/encryption. Evolution uses the IETF standard for PGP over
email, which is commonly referred to as PGP/MIME (see rfc3156 for
details).

inline pgp and PGP/MIME are not compatable.

PGP/MIME is a much better format as it allows encrypting/signing of the
entire email including attachments (or any/all parts individually)...
whereas inline pgp only works with text/plain emails.

We have posted a bounty reward for anyone who implements inline pgp
support in evolution: http://www.gnome.org/bounties

someone actually just sent us a partial patch (which only allows sending
of inline pgp-signed messages thus far) to evolution-patches ximian com
just the other day, so with any luck this feature will be available in
2.0

Jeff

(PS isn't job317 from Mission Impossible or something?)

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 10:26, Job 317 wrote:
> Please fogive me if this issue has been discussed to death but...
>
> I use Evolution-1.4.5 (and love it) with GPG-1.2.4 but also use Outlook
> 2000 with PGP 8.0.
>
> I wish to be able to check signatures and decrypt messages on both ends
> from the other e-mail client.
>
> Currently, my Evolution GPG signature shows up as an attachment in
> Outlook and I don't know how to verify the signature with PGP 8.0.
>
> Also, how can I check my PGP signature when received in Evolution? I
> also use KGPG but when I cut and paste the PGP signature into the KGPG
> clipboard and verify it, I'm told that the signature or test is
> corrupt.
>
> I was able to successfully decrypt my OUTLOOK/PGP8.0 encryption using
> the KGPG clipboard decrypt function but it seems more work than it's
> worth. (I have not tried decrypting an Evolution/GPG1.2.4 message using
> Outlook/PGP8.0 yet.)
>
> So, am I naiive? I thought that PGP was Universal (i.e. OpenPGP
> compliance).
>
> Does Evolution have plans to make decryption and signature verification
> from Outlook/PGP easier?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Job