On Sat, 29 Jun 2002 16:31:23 +0200 (Romance Daylight Time) Vadim Zeitlin 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 >| On Sat, 29 Jun 2002 15:34:01 +0200 (CEST) Manuel Guesdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 >| 
 >| MG> I've just found this:
 >| MG>  
 >| MG> http://www.gnupg.org/gpgme.html
 >| 
 >|  Thanks, this looks interesting. But, you see, the problem is that someone
 >| should still write the M-specific code -- even if there is not going to be
 >| a lot of it, it should be done by someone knowing what is he doing. And
 >| this excludes me as I'm totally clueless about GPG. The proof, I didn't
 >| even know about the existence of this library :-)

I'd like to code it but I work on other (open-)projects and don't have enough time :-(

But before someone code it, it may be interesting to think about how we could 
integrate this kind of thing.
BTW, there's a at least one standard for crypted/signed messages: S/MIME (which I dont 
know). 


There's four basic cases concerning encryption/signature:
        o sending a signed message
        o sending an encrypted message
        o testing signature of received signed message
        o decrypting recieved message
which could be combined (sending a signed encrypted message, receiving a signed 
encrypted message).

Some times ago, I've started thinking about how to deal with this kind of things.

For example: I receive an encrypted message and decrypt it. OK
Now, some people may want to keep only encrypted message (and have to decrypt it each 
time they want to read it).
Some other people like to keep only decrypted version and may be some others want to 
keep the 2 versions :-)
How to deal with this ?

Anothers cases:
        o I receive a signed message. I'd like to know  what is signed ('text', all 
message including attachements, 'text'
+ attachements, only some of the attachements,...).
                How to keep information about what was signed (and verified) ?
        o I send encrypted or signed message. It will be great to keep the information 
that message was
encrypted/signed.
                 Some people may like to keep only encrypted/signed message. Some 
others like to keep clear text message only
and may be some other one want to keep encrypted/signed + clear text message :-)

I haven't tried other mail client for a long time (yes, I really like mahogany :-). 
Does someone have feedback on how
other mail clients handle this ?


Manuel
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