> Ok, I see.... So you don't think that Enigmail would want to add > some extra functionality over GnuPG's OpenPGP stuff?
Although I am part of Enigmail's help team, I don't have any say in Enigmail's future direction -- nor do I want to have a say. :) What I will say is this: historically, Enigmail has been tightly focused on supporting OpenPGP via use of GnuPG. That's been one of our strengths over the years. As soon as we open the door and start supporting things that are, at present, completely unrelated to OpenPGP, we lose our focus. Focus is a very important thing in free software projects. Know what you're going to do/support/enable and do that thing without getting lost down the side roads of, "but it would also be nice if...". > Of course we could try to become an official part of OpenPGP. It's not necessary that it become official. After all, the HKP keyserver protocol isn't documented in RFC4880. It's just necessary that it become a de-facto standard way of querying for keys. If/when it becomes a de-facto standard, GnuPG will quickly add support for it as a keyserver protocol, and Enigmail will follow suit. > Do you think this is an extension that could eventually be accepted > into OpenPGP? This is a question that should be addressed to the OpenPGP working group. :) _______________________________________________ enigmail-users mailing list [email protected] https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
