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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Problems sending encrypted messages
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-15?q?Kl=F6cker?= <ingo.kloecker () epost ! de>
Date:       2002-02-01 9:34:30
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Rob Walker wrote:

> On Thursday 31 January 2002 12:19, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> 
>> It's too late for this because we are in a message freeze. ;-)
> 
> but not too late for 3.0.1 :-)

Au contraire! 3.0.1 will be a bug fix release and this means _No new 
features_ and _No new strings_. Not supporting untrusted keys is _no 
bug_ therefore this feature can't be implemented before 3.1.0.

> I think that the user should be allowed to sign and encrypt whatever 
> they want to to whomever they want to.  However, it may very well be 
> that Kpgp::Base should be what supports this, not something extra we 
> put into kmail.

This has to be done definitely in Kpgp and not in KMail.

> We have a user saying "I want to do it."  Doesn't that provide enough
> validation?  Not having this feature doesn't stop a user from sending
> their email, since they will either just start signing locally to get 
> it
> done (I suppose it isn't the best thing, but would it be better to
> generate a key especially for local signing, so that other people 
> know not
> to trust it?) or
> they will do it outside of kmail.  The former, I don't like (forcing 
> users
> to do non-standard things to use our app)

It would be non-standard to allow encrytion with untrusted keys. 
Signing keys (after checking their validity) is the standard procedure 
to make a key trusted.

> and the latter seems like it
> will push people away from kmail in the long run.

Regards,
Ingo
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