Wish: group support for Kmail and gnupg

[Werner Koch]

On Wed,  8 Nov 2006 11:00, bernhard at intevation.de said:

> The alternative: Associate several keys with one email adress oder identifier 
> on client level. This seems more cumbersome to me. 

That is in fact the only solid way to implement it.  The --group
sopport in gpg was a hack and I always feared the problems.

> To improve the current situation is would be a good next step to have
> KMail make it possible to select a gnupg group from the interface when
> it is looking for a key for an email address.
> For this gnupg must somehow provide the list of groups on request.
> Werner: Do we have such a method in gpgme already?

$ gpg --with-colons --list-config group

Returns a listing of all defined groups.  This does not use the
configure interface, though.  I am still not convinced that the group
feature is a good idea.  To implement it properly we need anotehr
database to store these aliases - using the configure file is a hack
which does not scale.   

I thinking of a gpgk daemon to manage keys - with such a new
infrastructure we could easily add aliases.  But it is all not a good
solution: The receiving MUA does not know about this mapping and may
want to complain about a mismatch in the addresses used in the mail
and those used in the key to encrypt it.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner