Ägypte n with S/MIME and OpenPGP

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

Dear Jan,

On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 12:30:59PM +0200, Jan Petranek wrote:
> on the web site of the Ägypten project it is mentioned, that Ägypten (that
> is, GnuPG) aims to be able to read S/MIME-formatted mails, certificates
> and so on as well as the OpenPGP format. As far as I know GPG, this means
> also support for the old PGP 2.6.x format (well, in some limited way).
> 
> How far has the implementation of the S/MIME come now?

the aim of the Ägypten project is to sphinx-enable free software
MUAs. S/MIME is one important element.

We are currently in the process to make up a detailed design 
on how the solution might look like.
It is updated regularly at the Ägypten homepage for open discussion.

We haven't coded much at this point, but it is an essential
idea to review existing code and if its quality is good, tie
it together with other elements. Where no code is available
we of course must write it on our own unless someone likes
to participate.

There are already some peaces of code (eg. an S/MIME patch for mutt),
but we haven't decided yet .
So if you know about any existing code please let us know.
More general input is also welcome.

We plan to have first working code with KMail end of November 2001.

Jan

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