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Bug 591342 - semi-automatic trust check for keys
semi-automatic trust check for keys
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Plugins
2.26.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: evolution-plugin-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-08-10 15:52 UTC by Thorsten Sick
Modified: 2021-05-19 11:08 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement



Description Thorsten Sick 2009-08-10 15:52:00 UTC
Implement Adam Schreiber's idea
(http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591027) of a semi-automatic trust
check.
If there are any untrusted keys, challenge the owner by an automatic mail. The
owner of the key then signs this mail and sends it back. If the key owner also
has a mail client that supports this verification protocol this can be done
automatically. As soon as the signed mail returns, the key can be granted a
marginal vaildity.

The plugin should do:

- sends a challenge to all untrusted keys (once per key)
- the challenge contains a specified, parseable part (for automatic handling)
- the challenge can contain plaintext explanation (for human interaction)
- the same plugin recognizes challenges and responds to them
- returned challenges are checked and the trust is updated

There is a similar bug posted for Thunderbird/Enigmail
https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=21374
Co-operate to define the parseable part of the message for seamless interaction between the mail clients
Comment 1 André Klapper 2009-08-10 19:43:18 UTC
> Co-operate to define the parseable part of the message for seamless 
> interaction between the mail clients

That's a bit funny...
A defined standard probably makes more sense.
Comment 2 André Klapper 2021-05-19 11:08:20 UTC
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