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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KNewStuff and GPG question
From:       Thomas Baumgart <thb () net-bembel ! de>
Date:       2010-07-23 5:29:27
Message-ID: 201007230729.32892.thb () net-bembel ! de
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Hi fellow devs,

on Friday 23 July 2010 Andras Mantia wrote:

> On Friday 23 July 2010, Frederik Gladhorn wrote:
> > If any sort of signing worked in knewstuff, that must have been in
> > KDE 3. I'm not aware where this was ever used.
> 
> It was used in Quanta in KDE3 (that's why I added to it;) ) and I think
> it makes a lot of sense for any "stuff" that can run on your computer,
> like scripts. If you have a GHNS provider site where you publish only
> review scripts that don't do any harm, it makes even more sense to sign
> them with a GPG key the users might trust.
> 
> Although Quanta4 porting was stalled, now we have a good progressing SoC
> student for it, so count another app that is interested to have signed
> stuff.

I could see KMyMoney using such a feature to provide verified access to online 
banking URLs.


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Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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C makes it easy for you to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes that
harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.
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