Re: S/MIME support

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> writes:

> On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 10:53:37 +0200, Simon Josefsson said:
>
>> 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.
>
> The interface of gpgsm is very similar to gpg and thus it should be no
> problem to add support for it to pgg.  Note however that gpgsm does
> not take a passphrase because private keys are entirely managed by the
> gpg-agent and thus gpg-agent will pop up a pinentry dialog as needed -
> gpg also support the gpg-agent. (There is a curses based pinentry
> available).

Good.  It is probably a bad idea to force all applications to do its
own password handling, so having gpg-agent handle the password instead
of Gnus sounds better anyway.

(This reminds me that generalizing gpg-agent would be good... I have
wanted to use something similar in Shishi/SASL too.  And I recall
Nikos wanting to use it in GNUTLS, but I never started working on it.
Gnus' password.el could use it as well, perhaps.)

> Just ask me if you need help integrating gpgsm into Gnus; I know the
> gpgsm very well ;-).

I'm working on the integration.  See my questions on gnupg-users. :-)

Thanks,
Simon