GNU bug report logs - #39886
[PATCH] Add EPA keyserver client

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Message #14 received at 39886 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: philip <at> warpmail.net (Philip K.)
Cc: 39886 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Subject: Re: bug#39886: [PATCH] Add EPA keyserver client
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2020 15:59:19 +0200

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

> 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.

I think this makes more sense in Emacs core than in ELPA, really -- it's
infrastructure that could help the Emacs mail clients navigate the key
servers, which would be helpful (because it's pretty opaque currently).

Any other opinions?

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