Am 14.06.2016 um 07:36 schrieb Patrick Brunschwig:
> On 14.06.16 07:17, Nick Doiron wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> I've used EnigMail on and off for a few years, but this is my first time
>> posting to the list.
>> I was reading up on quantum computing, and started trying out codecrypt
>> (https://github.com/exaexa/codecrypt), a signing and encryption tool
>> based on several quantum-computing-resistant methods.  Its command-line
>> tool (ccr) is designed to have the same commands and interface as the
>> gpg command line.
>>
>> I downloaded the source code for EnigMail, hoping that I could just swap
>> gpg and ccr, but EnigMail talks to the gpg-agent key manager and
>> codecrypt doesn't appear to have an equivalent.  If anyone's interested
>> in quantum computers and wants a closer look at this, please let me know
>> and I'll follow up.  I figure that since the encryption part is done and
>> it's based on gpg, adding a gpg-agent -type program won't be as hard as
>> it sounds.
> 
> The parameters that ccr uses are similar, but still different to the
> parameters that gpg would use. Ccr would not understand *all* parameters
> that Enigmail passes to gpg.
> 
> In addition, it seems that the output of ccr is not comparable to the
> output produced by gpg. In other words, even if you manage to convince
> Enigmail to execute a command with ccr, Enigmail would not be able to
> understand the results that ccr returns.
> 
> "GnuPG-like" is just not enough.
> 
If this turns out to be useful, would you consider supporting it
alternatively?

-- 

Thomas Hotz
[email protected]

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