Re: slow PGP in No Gnus v0.4

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.jussieu.fr> writes:

> Unlike 1b, which is obviously bad, 1a happens all the time.  And Gnus
> (even with gnus-buttonized-mime-types set to multipart/signed) doesn't
> allow me to easily distinguish between the two -- the button just says
> ``Failed''.  Which I hereby report as a bug.

Yes, that seems bad.

You wouldn't want to fix this yourself?  :-)  I doubt I even have gpg
installed here, which makes debugging slighly more tricky. 

> A visible flag in the modeline would be an improvement over the
> current situation.  You could replace the current ``p'' with a choice
> of well-chosen characters.  Perhaps someone can make a better design
> than
>
>   1a. ?
>   1b. -
>   2a. +
>   2b. ?
>   3. space
>   4. p
>
> And if these could be coloured, that would be cool.

Looks OK to me.

> In particular, there's absolutely nothing preventing me from signing a
> message with my key and putting ``From: larsi@'' in the headers.
> There's absolutely nothing to indicate that case in the non-buttonised
> interface.  Which I hereby report as a bug.

That does seem rather bad.

But that reminds me -- has anybody done any work on dkim?  Or did that
go the way of the dodo, too?  The last time I checked into the
"verified mail" thingies, (some) people were all het up about dkim.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen