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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    [Bug 34681] searching PGP encyrypted messages
From:       ktom () tracy ! bot ! ch
Date:       2003-08-17 12:51:02
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------- Additional Comments From ktom@tracy.bot.ch  2003-08-17 14:51 -------
The PGP crypto plug-in allows you to store email in unencrypted form. Does this 
solve your problem? 
 
Whether or not encrypted messages should also be stored encrypted is a matter 
of someones security needs and/or policy. Displaying an encrypted message might 
also reveal it to third parties and printing might even be very risky as well. 
 
It all depends. For example messages could be kept encrypted on the imap server 
while the local copies are decrypted. In a similar setup an index for searching 
could be stored locally, while the actual messages remain encrypted. 
 
Personally, I would like to have all the three configurable on a folder by 
folder bases: 
-  store the messages in decrypted form (local and remote) 
-  store the messages in decrypted form locally, but leave them decrypted on 
the server 
-  keep the messages decrypted 
 
 
As already said, local searching can be implemented without the need for 
storing the messages in decrypted form (see also 
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46058) 
 
- tom
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