I share your pain. But you don't need to wait for the Mozilla team to come up with native code for signing and encrypting email.
Take a look at ENIGMA:
It's a 100% Pure Java binary executable which you can run on ANY operating system with a Java2 VM v1.3 or higher (I've tested it under Win98 with Sun's JVM, and IBM's JVM 1.3 for OS/2). It works by acting as an smtp and pop3 proxy running on your computer. You just have to modify your email program and browser to connect to LOCALHOST (127.0.0.1) instead of your regular mail servers.
It will allow you to sign and encrypt your email using pgp algorithms but without the need to have a pgp binary for your platform (all the code is 100% java, with no native code calls).
BTW: let me jump into my soapbox mode to say that the mozilla team is sadly not taking advantage of Pure Java, and its added benefits.
For example, there is no reason why the PSM and security libraries (ssl/pgp/smime) "have to be" native code. Writing these parts in 100% pure java would make Mozilla ports MUCH faster, as a single binary java class would be useable across platforms without even recompiling!!.
But then... I'm a java junkie, and wtf do I know... ;-)
Regards
Fernando
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Eric Plaster wrote:
When will this be available? As you can see from my mail, I like to be able to sign my mail. It's also important to encrypt my messages in our company, as we send sensitive enformation. Does anyone know when there wlll be an interface to this?-eric
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