Subject: Re: bug#39886: [PATCH] Add EPA keyserver client

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 06:50:32 -0700

[email-masked] (Philip K.) writes:

> Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Why do you think this should go to core rather than to GNU ELPA?
>
> You're right, my mistake.

Thanks.  Stefan M, could you help review this submission to GNU ELPA?

>> How would you imagine that this will typically be used?
>
> This was developed as part of an university project to work on
> Cryptography in Email clients for Emacs. So the idea would be that this
> would make it easier to find keys when sending or receiving a message
> (we also developed an autocrypt[0] and openpgp.org client[1], but didn't
> get around to officially submitting the latter anywhere).
>
> The only "problem" would be, if it were admitted into ELPA, it would
> require some more code to integrate it into various mail clients, as [0]
> and [1] do.
>
> [0]: https://melpa.org/#/autocrypt
> [1]: https://wwwcip.cs.fau.de/~oj14ozun/src+etc/openpgp.el

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas