GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 119885
Support PGP messaging
Last modified: 2011-02-05 17:18:13 UTC
It would be great if Gossip allowed the user to encrypt chats with PGP, just like Gabber... ;-)
http://www.jabber.org/ietf/draft-ietf-xmpp-e2e-05.html to a layman looks like it is the relevant standard.
http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0027.html This is the proposed standard. Kopete and Psi already use it.
Personally I think this should be part of a plugin, I'm brand spankin' new to this project, I'm reading through everything I can at the moment. I've not yet used Gossip, does it have a plugin arch.? If not is there one planned for this sort of thing?
This feature should be implemented in Loudmouth if you ask me. Since Loudmouth currently handles the SSL side of things and Gossip doesn't really need to know about it. Micke, is this something that could go into your new Loudmouth work?
I don't necessarily agree that this should go into Loudmouth. The SSL is on transport level, ie you send everything over a secure socket while PGP support is inside a message, Loudmouth doesn't care what's included in messages. I think this should be done on application level (with the current Loudmouth architecture), for Loudmouth 2 I have some ideas about layering within Loudmouth and have a Loudmouth Core which would be similar to what Loudmouth 1 is and then add Loudmouth IM or something that would involve application API for instant messaging, PGP would fit nicely there.
Gossip development has been stalled and it has been unmaintained for a few years now. You may use 'empathy' for similar functionality. Maintainers don't have future development plan so i am closing bugs as WONTFIX. Please feel free to reopen the bugs in future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development.