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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: searching keyservers
From:       Johan Persson <surak () rsn ! bth ! se>
Date:       2001-09-30 18:25:49
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> AFAIK it's currently on noone's todo list. I'm currently working on
> other PGP related things.
> It could be implemented as an option in the key dialog which pops up if
> KMail can't find a PGP key which corresponds to one of the recipients
> of an encrypted message. 

Exactly, and perhaps an extra textfield option with what keyserver to use.

> Maybe it would be best to call another program
> (e.g. Geheimnis) to fetch the keys and then continue with KMail. We
> shouldn't put to much key handling stuff into KMail itself because this
> will blow up KMail unnecessarily.

I thought of placing the code in the kpgp library. 

> AFAIK this is the standard way of doing it. Some newer keyservers also
> support key lookups via LDAP.

LDAP would be easy but since not very many keyservers provide this option
I say we should stick with using the HTTP way.

> Do we really need an extra kioslave for this? Can't the HTTP kioslave
> handle these simply key lookups?

I agree  ;)

After thinking about it, it would be a but unneccesary with an kioslave. 
Easier to use the http kioslave and just parse the result.

- -- 
//surak

johan persson
surak@rsn.bth.se
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