Re: gpg et co

["Maciej Golebiewski" <s30125 lycos com>]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 14:18:19  
 Carlos Morgado wrote:
>
>On 2001.07.12 11:56:33 +0100 Maciej Golebiewski wrote:
>> What about adding to balsa support for
>> plugins written in Perl and then
>> implementing PGP/GPG (or strong
>> encryption like rot13 ;) ) etc. support
>> in plugins?
>> 
>
>not very practical cause gpg/pgp signatures are sent in mime attachments. 
>the plugin would need a way to access the whole message

I agree that adding plugin capability JUST
for the purpose of encryption is not
practical. But it could help with other
things... and allow for a quick pgp/gpg
hack for those who can't live w/o it.

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>take this message and give me a back a application/gpg-encripted mime attach
>or a gpg-signature. having that in place, the crypto server and mail server
>choices would be left to the user.
>bloat ? why of course! but this is Gnome ;)

I like your vision :) but I lack the time
to work on it :(

Maciej



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