[Alpine-info] Extensions needed for proper crypto support.

[Sean C. Farley]

On Sat, 6 Jun 2009, Steven W. Orr wrote:


> I've been reading up on the crypto aspects as they relate to alpine. I 

> understand pretty much how the PGP/GPG side operates. I think I have a 

> sense of the S/MIME side of things as well. After having gone through 

> it all, feel like I have a definite preference to using GPG over 

> S/MIME. But I see a number of messages that have GPG signature 

> attachments and the support needed to verify these messages is not 

> good. And verifying is less useful if I can't also send a message with 

> an attached signature.

>

> What seems to be missing is the ability to easily create filters for 

> dealing with GPG in the context of an attached signature.


*snip*

Not that I have time to do this, but one possibility is to code PGP 
support into Alpine.  Since it has a BSD-type license and would work 
well with Alpine in this regard, I would recommend using OpenPGP SDK[1].

Sean
   1. http://openpgp.nominet.org.uk/
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