Re: PGP/GnuPG support

[Brian Stafford <brian stafford uklinux net>]

On Thu, 19 July 10:24 German Gomez Garcia wrote:
> 	Hello,
> 
> 	I've been waiting for GnuPG support in balsa for a long time, but
> as it doesn't get implemented, I'm thinking of doing it myself. As I read
> in previous threads, it seems that it should not be done using the libmutt
> pgp support. Anything else to have into account?

Yes, read the RFCs.  Don't write a single line of code till you understand
them.  Interoperability is all-important.  Don't do anything that is not
blessed by a normative standard.  Don't do anything that makes subsequently
implementing S/MIME difficult.

I posted the references for the relevant RFCs recently.

> 	I was thinking of doing it as simple as I could, just two button
> when composing a message to encode and a button when reading to decode/check
> signing.

Nice thought, but I doubt its going to be that simple.  You'll need a mechanism
to manage public certificates for people you want to write to and to
manage private certificates for signing and decrypting.  And that's only
to start.

I figure one reason nobody's done this to date is that it's not
easy to do.

Brian Stafford