On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 22:30:11 +0200 (Romance Daylight Time) Vadim Zeitlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Jul 2002 21:57:44 +0200 (CEST) Thomas Finneid > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TF> - storage of messages > TF> I think its better narrow it down and say that only the > TF> composer/viewer should do the encryption/decryption at run > time. > > I agree. ditto. > TF> - mime implications > TF> I donīt know exactly how this works yet, > Me neither. Have you found which documents describe this? MIME and PGP are described in RFC 2015, 3156 S/MIME v2 is described in RFC 2311, 2312 S/MIME v3 is described in RFC 2632, 2633, 2634 there are 5 others that show up if you go to http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcsearch.html and search on "S/MIME", but they're of less relevance. the two books i mentioned on mahogany-users a couple of weeks back also have some discussion of things like certificate handling for S/MIME and don't address PGP/GPG at all.. > And I've never used it at all, so a description would indeed be welcome. > TIA! the gist of it is that if the keys/certificates are available or can be fetched, the message is decoded automagically. this is not overwhelmingly difficult, i think, but we do have to develop a key/certificate handler. > I propose to start with implementing support for viewing > encrypted/signed > messages. It is probably simpler and, AFAIK, indepent of composing them. > And we'll probably gain some experience while doing it, i.e. some "small" > issues such as integrating with the external libraries and such will be > solved in process of implementing it. for S/MIME, look at apps/smime.c in the OpenSSL source distribution. you'll find examples of how to call OpenSSL for all the S/MIME stuff. hopefully there is a similar example of how to do this in the GPG distribution. richard -- Richard Welty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Averill Park Networking 518-573-7592 Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Two, two, TWO treats in one. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Mahogany-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mahogany-developers
