Mozilla+GnuPG (was: Mail clients)

[Nils Ellmenreich]

>>>"WK" == Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> writes:

 WK>  || On Fri, 08 Jun 2001 11:07:22 -0700
 WK>  || Christopher Maujean <cmaujean@premierelink.com> wrote: 

 cm> A related question: any news on a Mozilla/GnuPG

 WK> Bernd Rausch has worked on this and the latest patch for Moz 0.9 looks
 WK> pretty nice.  There is still a lot of work to do.

 WK>  http://www.telematik.informatik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~rausch/

The current state of PGP/GnuPG support for Mozilla is being
documented by bug http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22687

The gist of it is this: there is a contributed patch that might work
with a yet unreleased NAI PGP-plugin. This patch might also work with
GnuPG. However, the patch will not go into the trunk and Mozilla staff
has delayed further work on it until after Mozilla 1.0 release (which is
scheduled by end of 2001) for various reasons. The main one is that they
have just too much work and other priorities for 1.0. They say that
eventually there will be PGP support but not now. Another reason given
is that PGP/GnuPG support will require architectural changes that the
current patch lacks. I've had a brief look at Bernd Rausch's work and
would expect his patch to be dismissed by Mozilla staff for the same
reason. They seem to aim for a generic solution for Mail/News
cryptography.

Regards, Nils
-- 
Nils Ellmenreich, Lst. f. Programmierung, Universitaet Passau, Germany