I'm amazed of the nice prograss that seahorse has made in recent month. I use
the gedit plugin and nautilus integration frequently and started using the panel
applet yesterday: nice!

But one thing that is missing IMO is nice integration of GPG into instant
messaging. On the KDE side, Kopete supports encryption/decryption of messages
(regardless of the protocol) for a long time now. If seahorse could provide this
functionality on the Gnome side, this would rock and I guess this would really
be the killer feature many, many are waiting for: more users for seahorse, more
users of secure instant messaging!

The universal IM application most people use ATM seems to be Gaim, so i poprose
seahorse should provide a gaim(2) plugin that. The plugin should:

- try to decrypt a message if it arrives encrypted (gpg header) and send
following messages encrypted
- let the user initiate encrypted conversations himself

main problem here seems to be the (missing) mapping of IM accounts to gpg keys.
The plugin should ask for the matching GPG key and store that info somewhere. In
the furure, it would be nice to have GPG key ids stored in
evolution-data-server, so that gaim could query eds for a GPG key. If
development of this plugin kicks of now, perhaps it would be possible to get GPG
information into eds 2.8, to be released this fall.

I'm not very familiar with programming in C, otherwise I would write such a
plugin myself but if someone is interested in working in this, I would gladly
try and help where I can. Any feedback would be nice!