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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: PGP 2 support
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <ingo.kloecker () epost ! de>
Date:       2001-10-29 20:53:11
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On Monday 29 October 2001 17:01, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 10:27:45AM +0200, Werner Koch wrote:
> > On Thu, 25 Oct 2001 22:34:08 +0200, Marc Mutz said:
> > > Since gpgme will do so much for us in the next release (S/MIME
> > > and OpenPGP), would it be acceptable to drop PGPi support for a
> > > version or two until we have either a gpgme backend, or a new
> > > kpgp, which does not
> >
> > I assume PGPi is support for pgp 2.
> >
> > PGP 2 has a couple of security problems which have benn addressed
> > with OpenPGP, so I am in favor of dropping PGP 2 support entirely. 
> > It is qpossible to verify PGP 2 created message using GnuPG without
> > any hassles.
>
> The Ägypten-Projekt is about Free Software only.
> Supporting PGP is beyond is outside of the project's scope.
> Personally I also think it is the wrong signal to further support
> pgp or patented algorithms of any kind.

We already support PGP 2 since ages. So I really don't know what you all 
are talking about. You said you wanted to implement S/MIME support for 
KMail. Fine! Please do so! But please stop telling us that we should 
remove support for other encryption protocols/programs. If you don't 
like it please feel free to make your own version of KMail. After all 
KMail is a piece of Free Software although it supports the usage of 
non-free software which AFAIK isn't forbidden by the GPL, is it?

Nobody of us likes patented algorithms -- well, at least me -- so please 
don't get us wrong. But we are not going to remove support for PGP 2 
just because you have a problem with this.

Sorry, for being rude but this discussion ends here.

Regards,
Ingo
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