On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 14:33, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 13:45, Steve Murphy wrote: > [snip] > > > > Here's some of my observations: > > > > 1. evolution evaluates encryption in the wrong place in the dataflow, > > and therefore has a difficult time verifying signatures. The dataflow > > reformats the letter, like modifying the line widths, etc, and would > > probably have been better to check the original message at the front of > > the dataflow instead. Fejj, I think, has been working on this, and I > > think he knows all about the limitations, and apparently, it will take a > > lot of work to re-do this, if it ever gets done. > > this is already completed in CVS, and in fact, seems to work better than > mutt ;-) > > I'm now working on making the gpg interfaces better by presenting the > user with key information in the passphrase prompt and allowing up to 3 > tries to get the passphrase correct (gpg only allows 3 tries and then > aborts). > > I've also been saving information such as 'trust' in the backend, but as > of yet have no way of displaying this information in the front-end. I'm > not actually sure how badly this is even needed as we display gpg's > stderr which basically contains all this information anyway. Only reason > I'm fiddling with parsing/saving this data is that my state-machine was > wasting 24 bits of data and I figured I'd put it to good use ;-)
amazing how hard it is to fill 24 bits, I've still got 19 bits left!! That's it, let that chuckle out. We all know you want to laugh!! ;-) Jeff -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
