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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: [RFC] Kmail to use Knode message classes and proposed schedule for Knode/Kmail merge
From:       Don Sanders <sanders () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-08-12 20:24:43
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On Friday 10 August 2001 22:02, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Friday, 10. August 2001 21:35, Don Sanders wrote:
> > * Default to signing all outgoing messages (reduce the
> > risk of mail forgery).
>
> Well, we'd simply have to change the default value of
> "automatically sign messages with PGP" from false to
> true. As the value of this option is ignored (the sign
> action is disabled) if the user didn't define a PGP User
> Identity in his KMail Identities, it wouldn't cause any
> problems if we'd enable this option by default.

I don't think the world is ready for that yet. Many people 
used Netscape 4.x and that doesn't support digital 
signatures. In the Free world mail clients don't implement 
support for a common standard eg mutt and KMail use 
different standards.

Furthermore this option shouldn't be turned on by default 
until the problem of making it as simple as possible for 
users to create a key pair is solved. Otherwise the 
consequences of changing the default to signed are hidden 
until this problem is solved.

> > * Default to encrypting all outgoing messages that are
> > being sent to a recipient whose public key the user
> > has. (maximize the amount of internet traffic between
> > individuals that is encrypted).
>
> cf. my reply to Marc's reply.
>
> > * Have the UI draw attention to (ie mark/highlight)
> > mails that are either unsigned or unencrypted (rather
> > than vice-versa which is the status quo).
>
> Well, mailing list messages will always be unencrypted
> (unless we decide to use an encrypting mailman). BTW, is
> there already some mailing list software which supports
> encrypted mailing lists, i.e. you send a message to the
> mailing list which you encrypt with the mailing list's
> key and then the mailing list software forwards this
> message encrypted with each recipients key individually
> to each of the subscribers?

I'm not aware of any solutions for this. I don't consider 
it an essential issue.

Don.
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