GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 127521
Inline PGP support for evolution
Last modified: 2012-06-25 12:26:26 UTC
An often requested feature for Evolution is to support inline-pgp ('clearsigned') secure emails, in addition to the PGP-MIME format we already support. This will aid interoperability with legacy secure-mail implementations. See Ximian Bug #17540, and Ximian Bug #17541 in http://bugzilla.ximian.com This bug is part of the Integrated Collaborative Desktop Bounty Hunt. For more information on prizes, contest rules, and other bounty tasks, visit: http://www.gnome.org/bounties/ If you would like to start working on this bounty, please create a bugzilla account and append your intention to work on this bounty to this bug. If multiple people declare their intentions to work on a task, we encourage you to join forces and work together. Please do not close this bug. The contest organizers will mark this bug as FIXED when the prize is claimed.
Please see http://www.gnome.org/bounties/Mailer.php3#127521 for more information.
I would like to give it a try.
I got Evolution compiled some time ago already. I studied the principles of PGP. I will move to implementation.
Hi Bohus, Any luck on this bounty? You can ask questions in #bounties and #evolution on GIMPNet (irc.gnome.org). You can also get help and advice via email at evolution-hackers@ximian.com and evolution-patches@ximian.com.
I built evolution at the end of November. Right now I just finished my finals, so I have not been on #bounties, #evolution and #gnome for some time. I am subscribed to both lists you mentioned. I will ask more questions soon, thanks.
For plain text messages, inline PGP signature is quite popular. Thus I suggest to show a pop-up window (just before the PGP signed message is sent) with a question like this: "PGP signature of plain text message can be inlined.\nInline?". Should that option be part of gconf ("don't show again...")?
Created attachment 23011 [details] [review] Part A of patch: it offers a possibility to send a clearsigned message. Part B (shortly) will verify clearsigned message.
Created attachment 23147 [details] [review] This implements sending of clearsigned messages. Verification of clearsigned messages is not done yet.
Created attachment 24012 [details] [review] This code implements cleartext signing and verification of clearsigned messages.
The final sentence of the pointer section of the bounty description (http://www.gnome.org/bounties/Mailer.html#127521) mentions RFC2298. This is incorrect. RFC2298 specifies a format for MDNs. It should probably be RFC2440 which specifies the OpenPGP message format.
I have created patches to address this bounty. They implement complete receive support for inline PGP. The patches can be found on the evolution-patches list at http://galactus.ximian.com/pipermail/evolution-patches/2005-June/010989.html or attached to bug #217540.
This bounty was available in 2003 and is not available anymore. Closing as OBSOLETE.
The fact that the bounty is not available doesn't mean the bug is not valid, does it?
(Hidden information in comment 0:) The issues themselves (not the bounty part) are handled in bug 217540 and bug 217541 instead.
Well, they're marked as obsolete as well…