From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/86966 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Greg Troxel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: RFC: use NSS for S/MIME Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 14:50:28 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1458759132 24777 80.91.229.3 (23 Mar 2016 18:52:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 18:52:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Daiki Ueno Original-X-From: ding-owner+M35187@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Mar 23 19:51:56 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ainsp-0005P9-SW for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2016 19:51:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ainrg-0005E1-4p; Wed, 23 Mar 2016 13:50:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ainrd-0005DN-MK for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 23 Mar 2016 13:50:41 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.85_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ainrb-0005ED-8G for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 23 Mar 2016 13:50:41 -0500 Original-Received: from linuxpal.mit.edu ([18.62.1.14]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ainrZ-0002k1-H5 for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2016 19:50:37 +0100 Original-Received: by linuxpal.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 9545) id 7798C16079; Wed, 23 Mar 2016 14:50:33 -0400 (EDT) OpenPGP: id=098ED60E X-Hashcash: 1:20:160323:ueno@gnu.org::L6+3EV4c6qyLMzSf:000005Z3g X-Hashcash: 1:20:160323:ding@gnus.org::mTCixGQJoG18d/7v:00005HvF In-Reply-To: (Daiki Ueno's message of "Thu, 03 Mar 2016 17:20:33 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.5 (berkeley-unix) X-Spam-Score: -3.5 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:86966 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Daiki Ueno writes: > After seeing Greg's report on S/MIME interoperability issue[1], I was > thinking that it might be a good idea to add an S/MIME backend using NSS > instead of gpgsm. Sorry, I've had gnus paged out while dealing with other $DAYJOB issues. > The rationale behind this are: > > - The certificate/key database could be shared with other major MUAs, > such as Evolution or Thunderbird. > > - For OpenPGP, GnuPG is the de-facto and there is no free alternative. > For S/MIME, however, NSS is more widely used, and I expect that it had > been tested better. > > What do people think? I have a basic wrapper implementation[2] (though > I might not have time to finish the integration of it into Gnus). > > Regards, > > Footnotes:=20 > [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/86677 > > [2] https://github.com/ueno/smime-nss-el I think this would be great. I realize nss may have its own issues, but given that it exists and is in use, letting gnus use either seems like a big step forward. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlby5XQACgkQH9p66AmO1g7HFQCeNJX4hCue6UOXMCxNI0XRes4o sFQAnRObGw5QOnyrD4BmeNWtIQn+e38V =cY0+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--