Re: [Evolution] OpenPGP/GPG inline message support

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

I'll add one thing, we had a bounty open for this and some preliminary patches.

So one day it will be implemented, I guess.

It isn't a priority though, since we have pgp/mime, which works, and isn't quite as broken as inline pgp clearly is (it is quite likely an openpgp format message will not be verifyable at the receiving end, for example).


On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 16:06 -0500, Brian G. Peterson wrote:
> I'm writing to inquire after the status of inline OpenPGP support in
> Evolution.  Google and the archive for this list (and my current
> experience with Evolution) seem to indicate that inline OpenPGP messages
> are *still* not supported.
>
> inline support is required for full OpenPGP standards compliance, and
> almost all OpenPGP compliant mailers offer some support for inline
> encryption and signatures, if only on decrypt/verify.
>
> The current draft OpenPGP RFC (RFC2440bis) will almost certainly contain
> additional implementation details to make it easier for users to
> indicate in thier keys which mail format that they wish others to use
> when communicating with them.
>
> RFC 3156 (OpenPGP/MIME) neither obsoletes nor modifies RFC 2440, but
> rather offers a complimentary implementation of RFC 2440, and could be
> said to extend that standard to clearly define how to use OpenPGP with MIME.
>
> The fact is that inline support is required for the largest
> interoperability, and is not hard to implement.  Not supporting it
> causes huge interoperability problems with Microsoft's Outlook products,
> and with many versions of Commercial PGP.
>
> I'd love an update on the status of inline support.
>
> Regards,
>
>    - Brian Peterson
>      lead developer, GPG Plugin for Squirrelmail
>      participant, IETF OpenPGP working group
>
>
> Ref:
> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2440.html
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-openpgp-rfc2440bis-10.txt
> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3156.html
>
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