Hello fellow cryptographs, hope you are all well. We are approaching Lion and some major changes very fast and I'd like to take Alex' offer of help as an opportunity to give a quick update on the project in general - what we are up to and what is to come in the next few months.
- So far - We all can be very proud of what we have achieved so far and it makes me personally very happy to have played a minor role in this. It's been lots of work and lots of fun! - Importance of privacy - In my opinion, obtaining privacy in todays world is fundamental as it's a basic principle of democracy. And having no privacy is a big threat to every society. I find myself in the funny situation, that the people interested in this project (or subscribed to this mailing list) are very security aware in general. Many come from IT jobs that deal specifically with security. At the same time we face a generation of young people who don't use any mail-client at all and some don't even use mail. They use facebook and the like to communicate. If you are not on facebook, people don't e.g. invite you to go out, because they don't write mails anymore. I won't have to explain to the readers of this mailing-list the consequences of such behavior. But it's quite bewildering and at the same time seems to be the new standard for many people. So it's nice that we know about encryption, but maybe we should share that knowledge with more people? I have no concept so far about how to deal with this situation. But I wanted to address it because I see a great deal of work to do in this area. An interesting summery about the state of privacy and where the world is heading can be heard in Rop Gonggrijp's Keynote to the 2010 Communications Congress (december 2010): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALNovMk3fC8 . The video is a bit choppy here and there, which is because it was the first video made on that congress. It's still a highly interesting talk. - What's next? - Alex, welcome and great to hear, that you are offering some help. Developers are needed indeed and there are many things happening. We are working on several different things at the moment. So I think a good starting point is I give you a quick overview of what's happening and who is doing what: 1) Libmacgpg this is the structure upon our tools are based on. Until now, this was done by macgpgme which has several flaws and limitations. To deal with this, Roman took the challenge of a complete rewrite and is close to a first beta stage. Next steps are: each software has to be modified to work with Libmacgpg. 2) GPGMail and Lion the new apple Mail.app in Lion will most likely break our nice plug-in into tiny little pieces and make it unusable. I have done no Lion testing so far, but since Mail has seen major changes we are facing some big issues coming towards our community in the next month. As Lukas already pointed out (I think on Lighthouse - our ticket-system) this might make a major rewrite of GPGMail inevitable. Speaking of, this is an area which we can need lots of help. 3) GPGServices This is, imo, a tool which is still very underrated. It has great capabilities but has not arrived in the broad audience. We will try to push it a little, when Libmacgpg integration is finished. 4) Documentation Some documentation has been created over the last year and much more will hopefully be generated. There's room for improvement in this area. 5) Localization There were some requests concerning localizations: Localizations are important and we should approach that as soon as Libmacgpg has been established and our tools are working with the latest version of apple Mail.app. @ Luke, which software are you translating? It would be nice to have a spanish localization for GPG Keychain Access. Since GPGMail is approaching major changes, we should wait to localize it. Localizations for the website are planned but we don't have support for that ready, yet. That's imo the pre-dominant topics in the coming months. So let us work together to keep GPGTools alive and well. Any volunteers wishing to help can write to me or any other member involved with GPGTools (Alex, Roman, Lukas, Moritz) or simply to the developers mailing list: gpgtools-de...@lists.gpgtools.org . If you need to know who's working on what or have specific questions pls take a look at our team-wiki: https://github.com/GPGTools/GPGTools/wiki/People Have a good one, cheers :) steve
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