Re: Get certificate from LDAP for S/MIME encryption (patch)

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Arne Jørgensen <arne@arnested.dk> writes:

>>> Didn't you work on integrating the gnutls libraries in emacs a long
>>> time ago? Could gnutls do s/mime stuff too?
>>
>> There is some PKCS#7 stuff in gnutls, so it might be possible to make
>> that work.  But if gpgsm is supposed to be a free and generic S/MIME
>> implementation, I think we should try to avoid reinventing it before
>> we have tried harder to use it.  I'll have another go at it sometime.
>
> You're right. From time to time I just dream about not having to
> depend on external programs

Implementing S/MIME in elisp isn't all that difficult, but it will be
a nightmare to maintain and keep interoperable.

Making the Emacs interface to external programs more reliable is
useful instead.  Since I think we have a bit more influence over
gnutls/gpgsm compared to openldap/openssl, it should not be impossible
to make that work smoothly.

Thanks.