Re: Balsa Encrypts messages with GnuPG!

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj stampede org>]

I will agree 100% that Balsa should migrate to using GMime (hey, I wrote it
;-) and not only will that be an improvement over using libMutt structures
but it will also take care of the problem of having to implement RFC 2015
(PGP/MIME) as GMime already comes complete with a fully functional PGP/MIME
implementation that works for PGP5, PGP2 and GnuPG.

Just check out the GMIME_PGP_MIME branch

Jeff

On Wed, 03 Jan 2001, Brian Stafford wrote:
> Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 09:35:57 +0000
> To: Alan O <alan@hitter.net>
> From: Brian Stafford <brian.stafford@office-logic.com>
> CC: balsa-list@gnome.org
> Sender: balsa-list-admin@gnome.org
> Subject: Re: Balsa Encrypts messages with GnuPG!
> 
> Rather than trusting libmutt to do the right thing and for more
> background
> on how to do this sort of thing, try reading RFC 1847 "Security
> Multiparts
> for MIME: Multipart/Signed and Multipart/Encrypted" and RFC 2015 "MIME
> Security with Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)".  These documents and the ones
> they 
> reference provide everything needed to implement a solution from scratch.
> I always find that the standards are more informative than reading source
> code
> which is usually wrong, incomplete or buggy, despite the authors' best
> intentions.
> 
> This is not to put down libmutt or the PGP code using it, I felt the
> issue
> needs raising because of the nature of some of the queries raised here.
> 
> In any case, I thought Balsa was moving away from the use of libmutt.  A
> better solution might be to use gmime and pgg and avoid using libmutt.
> It should be noted that S/MIME uses exactly the same MIME structures as
> PGP/MIME so this would be easy to add into such a framework.  (I have
> written
> code to do S/MIME in the past.  I don't have time right now, but I may be
> able to contribute in this area in the future.)
> 
> 
> --
> Brian Stafford
> 
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