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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: searching keyservers
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <ingo.kloecker () epost ! de>
Date:       2001-09-30 18:50:30
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On Sunday 30 September 2001 20:25, Johan Persson wrote:
> > 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.

Sounds reasonalbe. The textfield should have a small history so that the 
user can try several keyservers because unfortunately not all 
keyservers propagate the keys.
Please note, that I'm currently making heavy changes in kpgp*. Therefore 
it would be best to think about the GUI stuff after everything else 
works.

> > 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.

Yes. Of course.

> > 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.

I agree.

> > 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.

Exactly.

Regards,
Ingo
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