Replacing FireGPG was one of my motivating factors for starting work on gmail-crypt. I still see that as an end goal.
I know a few other people who might be interested in helping drive this to completion. What kind of support would RFA be willing to offer? I would also need to know more about the expectations for services. A couple of questions to consider: Webmail vs Messaging Webmail services are all different but similar (we can grab message content, email addresses from the composition page which is exclusively for sending). Messaging services are a bit different -- I'm not sure if this is intended to be facebook chat (which is essentially XMPP wrapped in a browser sessions -- OTR could be a better fit for this than OpenPGP) or facebook messaging. Facebook provides an API that allows us to read messages externally but not one to write. The reason an API would be useful here is that facebook is constantly changing their page, and batch testing is constantly happening on different users. This means it is harder to use a content script in the same style we can use it for the more established web mail services. Chrome/Firefox Our development has so far focused on chrome -- it's easier to focus on getting one extension working properly. What would be the expectations for multi browser capability? Thanks, Sean On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Alex (via OpenPGP.js) <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear OpenPGP.js list, > Dear GPGTools developers, > > We might have the great opportunity to get funding for the engineering of > a "multi-browser/cross-platform/muti-service firegpg-like plugin" based > open OpenPGP.js. What we need is a developer who has the time and the > interest over the next few month to work on this. > > Some more details: > > Dan Meredith, from Radio Free Asia (RFA), is responsible to identify, > find, instigate, fund, and manage projects that fit into the according > program mandate: "RFA has support available for projects that support > 'Internet Freedom', help to increase freedom of speech, increase both > privacy and security, and generally help thwart the surveillance efforts of > hostile and authoritarian governments controlling communication > infrastructure." > > So he's looking for folks to take a go at building on or completely > re-doing what FireGPG was doing. End deliverables would be an easy to use > in-browser PGP interface for popular web-based messaging services (ie. > Gmail, Facebook, Hotmail, Yahoo mail. This would include support for > popular browsers (i.e. Chrome and Firefox). This would include support for > the foundational work of enhancing/creating secure and efficient libraries. > > Let me know what you think. > > Best regards, Alex > > -- > http://gpgtools.org > http://openpgpjs.org > > _______________________________________________ > > http://openpgpjs.org >
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