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[PATCH] Add EPA keyserver client

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Message #23 received at 39886 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Philip K." <philipk <at> posteo.net>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 39886 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stefan <at> marxist.se
Subject: Re: bug#39886: [PATCH] Add EPA keyserver client
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2020 19:20:34 +0200

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> 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?

I agree, submitting this as a core-patch was the wrong approach. What's
the procedure for submitting a ELPA package?

-- 
	Philip K.

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