On 09/08/2014 02:09 PM, mots wrote:
> I see your point, thought I still think the feature would be useful
> mostly because the administrator does not currently get notified when
> a key is missing. (Or maybe I have missed the option for it in the
> documentation.) Sending an Email to the administrator with "[email protected]
> sent us a signed Email but we don't have the public key" would be
> alright, even if it's not as comfortable as automatic downloads &
> imports.

Could you add a feature request for this at https://jira.djigzo.com ?

Kind regards,

Martijn Brinkers



> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von:        Martijn Brinkers
> <[email protected]> Gesendet:        Mo 08.09.2014 11:37 Betreff:    Re:
> [Djigzo users] Automatic PGP key extraction from incoming mail An:
> [email protected];
>> On 09/08/2014 10:59 AM, mots wrote:
>>> I've seen this feature advertised here: 
>>> http://www.ciphermail.com/gateway.html But I can't find anything
>>>  about how to enable it in the documentation. I've tried sending
>>>  myself the public key for my hotmail address as pub.key and 
>>> pubkey.asc, yet no key was added to Ciphermail.
>>> 
>>> The key is also on the pool.sks-keyservers.net key servers, yet 
>>> Ciphermail didn't download it automatically when I sent myself a
>>>  signed email.
>> 
>>> Where can I find the documentation for this feature? The 
>>> administration guide doesn't say anything about it.
>> 
>> Currently the gateway will only extract a key if the key is
>> attached to the email as a separate attachment with content type
>> set to "application/pgp-keys". For example with Enigmail you can
>> select "Attach My Public Key" when composing a message. This will
>> attach your public key as an attachment. The gateway will then
>> extract the key. Currently the gateway will not automatically
>> download a key from a key server. I'm a little anxious to add that
>> feature since that option can be used to DOS the gateway by sending
>> a lot of signed messages. The gateway will then try to download a
>> key from an external server over and over. The main reason of
>> supporting extracting attached keys is that not all keys are stored
>> on a key server. If someone send a key by email which is not on a
>> key server, the key will end up in the mailbox of the recipient.
>> This recipient is likely not to be the gateway admin and does not
>> know what to do with it. Also in this case the admin cannot import 
>> the public key because the key is not on a key server and the email
>> with the key might not be accessible by the gateway admin.
>> Therefore in this case it might be a good to import the key (which
>> is not enable by default though). Note that importing a key does
>> not mean the key is automatically trusted.
>> 
>> Kind regards,
>> 
>> Martijn Brinkers
>> 
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