Re: Gedit plugin

[Stef Walter <stefw gnome org>]

On 26.04.2013 16:38, Pietro Battiston wrote:
> Hello,
>
> since the gedit plugin did not work with GNOME 3, and since the various
> workarounds found by googling didn't work for me, I wrote a new one:
> http://pietrobattiston.it/gedit-crypto
>
> This mail is to thank you for the very nice DBus service, to ask for any
> kind of feedback of what I could do better (i.e. realising _before_
> trying which keys are a valid recipient for encryption), and to ask one
> particular question, which follows.
>
> When I use the DBus method EncryptText(), I am asked for a list of keys.
> Assume I give some key of a friend of mine. When I try to decrypt the
> resulting text, I would expect the process to fail - I don't have her
> private key.
> Instead, gpg decrypts it without problems, because the text is encrypted
> both with my friend's key and _my_ key.

I think if you have a default key it'll be automatically included in the
recipients.

> Fair enough, it can make sense, in principle, that I'm able to decrypt
> any text I encrypted. But then, I would expect EncryptText() to also
> accept an empty list of keys: it should then encrypt using only my key.
> Instead, it refuses, pretending some recipients.

Most likely a bug. This is implemented in libcryptui, which doesn't have
much maintenance. but I would include a patch (and help you get started
with building it) if you like.

Cheers,

Stef