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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 21:17:35
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On Monday 29 October 2001 17:52, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> To clarify the situation even more:
>
> The current pgp and gpg capabilities of Kmail
> are not conforming to RFC 3156 (MIME Security with OpenPGP).
> I am not sure if it is correct to call this an OpenPGP support
> for a MIME capable MUA like Kmail.

The OpenPGP spec says SHOULD support PGP/MIME (or whatever it's 
officially called) and not MUST.
Furthermore the reason for still not supporting PGP/MIME is that the 
MIME library resp. the message classes we used (and which will be 
replaced by something completely different) weren't appropriate for 
this, i.e. adding PGP/MIME support would have been an ugly hack.

> In the Ägypten-Project we will make the code more modular.
> The old support will stay available as a module as it is,
> so the situation does not change with this step.
> No functionality is lost.
> This old methods to call pgp and gpg will not be further
> maintained within the Ägypten-project.
> (This is what Werner probably meant by "drop support".)

Well, but someone has to write the module with the "old support". Who 
will do this? Obviously Werner won't do it because that would mean that 
he has to include PGP 2 support.

> The Plug-in coming out of the Ägypten-Project will be able to handle
> OpenPGP support for Kmail through gnupg.

As long as people who can't use GnuPG, for whatever the reasons may be, 
will be still able to use encryption with KMail this is fine for me.

Regards,
Ingo
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