Re: opportunistic PGP encryption/signing

[Andreas Fuchs <asf@void.at>]

[-- Attachment #1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 645 bytes --]

On 2002-09-26, Jack Twilley <jmt+usenet@twilley.org> wrote:
> dme>  - all outgoing mail is encrypted if I have a key for the
> dme>    receiving party/parties,
> 
> Other bbdb entries have tags requiring encryption.  I have not yet
> written a script to associate keys with bbdb entries or to traverse my
> key-ring and set the related encryption tag in the bbdb entries, but
> it's on my list.

I've done such a thing, but it is really buggy (the regex matching names
requires special care - it matches a " " at the end too many). Please
don't use the module unmodified, it could might ruin your .bbdb
(i.e. add a lot of dupes).


[-- Attachment #1.2: bbdb-gpg-ring.el --]
[-- Type: application/emacs-lisp, Size: 1535 bytes --]

[-- Attachment #1.3: Type: text/plain, Size: 1256 bytes --]


I hope that helps (even though there are no comments (-;).

> dme>  - the key used for signing/encryption can be determined by a
> dme>    hook function (such as something added to message-send-hook,
> dme>    which I currently use for choosing a From: address, 
> dme>    signature, etc.).
> 
> This would be pretty simple, but it's not something I would ever use
> so I never implemented it.

I don't think it would be very useful for people who have more than one
private key in their ring for one address (people like me, for example,
who created a key with a very old version of gpg and then created a new
one when the security advisory was posted).

> dme> Coupled with interfaces for acquiring keys, etc. this would be
> dme> great.
> 
> Something that snarfed keys and updated the bbdb would probably
> complete my needs in this case.

Yow, that would be really great.

> dme> Does it exist ?
> 
> If you think my bbdb-pgp changes would suit your needs, let me know
> and I'll post them here.

Please do. I hope you're using the mml-secure-message-.*-pgpmime stuff?

Have fun,
-- 
Andreas Fuchs, <asf@acm.org>, asf@jabber.at, antifuchs
Was I helpful?  Let others know:
http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=antifuchs

[-- Attachment #2: Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 188 bytes --]