Re: Implementing Encryption in Balsa

[Paul Lewis <paul lewis karachi freeuk com>]

Speaking , not as a member of the Balsa design team but as one who 
uses Balsa. I have asked for PGP to be intergrated into Balsa and would
like to encourage you to proceed with this idea.

Regards


On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 03:50:38 Peter A . Kimball wrote:
> To the Balsa Team:
> 
> I am a college student majoring in Computer Science at Hamilton College, with
> an interest in Linux and the Open-Source movement. I was recently selected to
> receive a grant to do research over the summer in the field of Computer
> Science. As
> my research project, I wish to implement encryption in an open-source email
> client. I recently discovered Balsa and, after using both the current
> pre-release
> and other, older versions, decided that Balsa was exactly the type of project
> I
> would like to work with.
> 
> With the permission of the team, I would like to join the Balsa project and,
> working with a public encryption system such as PGP, implement within the
> Balsa
> program a secure mail feature. This would allow the user to send email in
> encrypted form, as well as providing methods of ensuring that the user did
not
> compromise the email's security by leaving data on the clipboard or leaving
> secure mail
> unencrypted on disk.
> 
> I think that Balsa is a great program and I would like to work with you to
> make
> it into an even better one.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Peter A. Kimball 
> pkimball@hamilton.edu
> 
> 
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