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[PATCH] Add EPA keyserver client

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 39886 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, "Philip K." <philip <at> warpmail.net>
Subject: bug#39886: [PATCH] Add EPA keyserver client
Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 06:50:32 -0700

philip <at> warpmail.net (Philip K.) writes:

> Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> 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

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