From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/58372 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: S/MIME support Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 10:53:37 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1094028888 22563 80.91.224.253 (1 Sep 2004 08:54:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 08:54:48 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6914@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Sep 01 10:54:40 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C2Qt6-0001BT-00 for ; Wed, 01 Sep 2004 10:54:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1C2QsT-0003Za-00; Wed, 01 Sep 2004 03:54:01 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1C2QsK-0003ZS-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 01 Sep 2004 03:53:52 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1C2QsK-0007kA-OM for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 01 Sep 2004 03:53:52 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F41C83A0026 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 03:53:50 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C2QsG-0003PU-00 for ; Wed, 01 Sep 2004 10:53:48 +0200 Original-Received: from c494102a.s-bi.bostream.se ([217.215.27.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 01 Sep 2004 10:53:48 +0200 Original-Received: from jas by c494102a.s-bi.bostream.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 01 Sep 2004 10:53:48 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c494102a.s-bi.bostream.se User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:E7aq7aosToeeD3jVWJ+J/TK7SUY= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58372 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58372 Ulf Stegemann writes: > Regarding that, is it worth it to think about improving Gnus' S/MIME > capabilities? Are there plans to do so? Or is it all a very bad idea and > are there more important things to do? I think it would be useful to enhance it. However, I believe the first step toward making the support better is to replace OpenSSL with the S/MIME implementation in the development versions of GnuPG; gpgsm. I don't think OpenSSL is a good idea. I believe gpgsm can help with the key management issues you mention as well.