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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: HOWTO on interfacing with gnupg/pgp?
From:       Andreas Gungl <Andreas.Gungl () osp-dd ! de>
Date:       2001-06-27 6:04:06
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Am Dienstag 26 Juni 2001 21:36 schrieb Ingo Klöcker:
> On Tuesday, 26. June 2001 13:41, Marc Mutz wrote:
> > What if we port our current pgp interfacing to be a backend to gpgme?
> > Will this code be accepted for inclusion or do we have to maintain it
> > as a patch and tell people: "Patch gpgme yourself if you want pgp
> > support"?
>
> I doubt that this will ever be included. See Werner's statement from
> above: "The GNU project[1] does not support proprietary software or
> advocates its use."
>
> One solution for this problem would be to take the gpgme code, include
> it into libkdenetwork and make a pgpme out of it. Of course we should
> still take the original gpgme for GnuPG support. But frankly, I
> currently don't see an advantage for the implementation of pgpme. Why
> can't we stick to our PGP code in kpgpbase.*? Only because we change
> the code to operate with GnuPG? If everything would be supported by the
> gpgme library then this would be nice. But in the current situation
> this doesn't make sense.

Well, I'm using PGP 6 and GPG in parallel at home. Most tasks can be done 
with both tools equally. (There are only single keys which I can't get 
processed by GnuPG, that's the moment when I temporary change the settings 
back to PGP.)
I guess, using gpgme will provide the same functionality as GnuPG (but 
better integration into KMail). That's why I also think that we could 
switch (later) from the current GPG support to gpgme while we will maintain 
the  current PGP implementations.

Andreas
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