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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: sharing the PGP code
From:       Andreas Gungl <Andreas.Gungl () osp-dd ! de>
Date:       2001-04-17 8:12:15
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On Monday 16 April 2001 11:32, Mathias Waack wrote:
> On Sunday 15 April 2001 22:07, Andreas Gungl wrote:
> > I plan to test GPGME then. It's still alpha, but IMO it would be
> > good to have an implementation ASAP to be ready when it's getting
> > stable.
>
> I had a look at GPGME some time ago. IIRC there are some problems
> accessing PGP keys from within GnuPG, right?
>
> Regarding to the note of Michael: I think this code should go into
> kdelibs. So the size and startup time of KMail should'nt augmented.
> And from my understanding, GPGME is not a simple frontend to gpg. Its
> a library which implements the OpenPG standard using the same code as
> gpg. It should work with data of all applications following this
> standard. But I don't know how far from the standard is PGP
> currently. Andreas please correct me, if I'm wrong.

In the moment we're supporting GnuPG and three PGP versions. So, in the 
beginning, we could also add GPGME as a kind of built-in OpenPGP support. 
Later it might be possible to remove at least the current GnuPG support, 
when GPGME will provide what it's promising.

IMO the greatest problem with the current solutuion is the dependence of 
the GPG/PGP program output which we have to parse. A library could improve 
this situation significantly, and I do also hope for better response times 
compared to the current situation, where we have to start another process 
some times.

Yes, there are problems with some PGP keys in GnuPG. But I think, we can 
either wait, until GPG(ME) is able to handle those keys too, or we could 
try to use a library for PGP which could give us the possibility to drop 
the current jungle of three different implementations for PGP 2.x / 5.x / 
6.x (or even higher).

Personally, I prefer to incorporate GPGME in the hope, that using this 
library we will be able to remove the current parsing based implementation 
completely in (let's say) one year.

Another direction for investigations are improvements regarding OpenPGP 
encoded messages. I think, mimelib is the main problem here.

Andreas
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