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<p>Am Mittwoch 31 Januar 2018 11:15:01 schrieb Werner Koch:</p>
<p><span style="color:#007000">> > If my email client does not yet support managing of</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#007000">> > my pubkeys via WKD do we somewhere have instructions or scripts to do</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#007000">> > this manually?</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#008000">> The long term idea is to have an abstract interface in gpg, for example</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000">> "gpg --publish" which takes care of publishing a key. In the meantime</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000">> gpg-wks-client can be used on _standard_ Unix boxes;</span></p>
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<p>At first thought I believe that sending email should not be done directly</p>
<p>from "gpg". SMTP and the authentication to the receiving server is complex</p>
<p>that I see it in GnuPG on the long run.</p>
<p>We really need to build WKD managing into more email clients.</p>
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<p><span style="color:#007000">> > * Add a cross plattform python script that may be able to</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#007000">> > be downloaded and used and works more easily.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#008000">> Python is usually not available on Windows. For Unix we could do a</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000">> standard script but that is not really better than the existing client.</span></p>
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<p>The smtpclient module would be cross plattform and is part</p>
<p>of Python's standard library. Okay, on windows we would need to either bundle Python itself into a single binary or have users download Python.</p>
<p>I'd say that the step of sending the email is hard even on GNU-systems</p>
<p>so in case there is no sendmail or no gpg-wks-client, it would be useful to have.</p>
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<p>An alternative would be a go implementation and a single binary</p>
<p>https://godoc.org/net/smtp but we would need to build one for each </p>
<p>hardware plattform.</p>
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<p><span style="color:#007000">> > * Provide gpg-wks-client for more plattforms (backport)</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#008000">> It is available for all platforms, whether a distro installs it is not</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000">> our choice.</span></p>
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<p>But a practical problem for our users on these platforms.</p>
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<p><span style="color:#007000">> > * Add instructions for windows that are step by step</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#008000">> Does not work because we can't send mail from the command line.</span></p>
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<p>Maybe we'll find a way to do with with several typical windows clients like Outlook, Thunderbird, Claws..</p>
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<p>Best,</p>
<p>Bernhard</p>
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