Re: official protocol for external helper program

Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
> Andrzej Filip wrote:
>> Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
>>> Andrzej Filip wrote:
>>>> Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
>>>>> Andrzej Filip wrote:
>>>>>> Is there any chance for enigmail to support some official protocol for
>>>>>> messages signing/encrypting and verification of message signature?
>>>>>> I have asked for support of "X-PGP-Sig:" but I will be happy to use more
>>>>>> general solution.
>>>>>> [e.g. execute external program, feed it XML via its stdin, read XML it
>>>>>> produces via stdout and error/report via stderr.
>>>>> There are a few add-ons for Mozilla available that deal in general with
>>>>> reading/writing complete messages (i.e. incl. headers), however AFAIK
>>>>> there is none that would offer a generic interface to just feed data to
>>>>> stdout and read something from stdin. The main problem is that this is a
>>>>> particularly difficult task to do in Thunderbird, and only very few
>>>>> people know how to do it at all.
>>>>> -Patrick
>>>> Is there another "communication protocol/method" better fitted to
>>>> Thunderbird architecture/limitations?
>>> No, there isn't. There is no limitation of Thunderbird in this area, the
>>> problem is just that creating an extension for tasks like the one you
>>> would like to accomplish is difficult, and thus so far only a few people
>>> dared to make the effort.
>>> -Patrick
>> So you have asked for one more final (re)try. 
> 
>> On my installation I can filter/rewrite messages before Thunderbird has

Re: official protocol for external helper program

Andrzej Filip wrote:
[...]
>> If you can do it completely externally, you could inject a header
>> telling the status of the signature verification. Then you could display
>> the additional header by adding your new header to the preference
>> "mailnews.headers.extraExpandedHeaders" (with about:config).
> 
> Yet another try:
> How hard would it be for enigmail to use "external script" for X-PGP-Sig
> verification treating it as "body only" signature?
> 
> As I understand marking signed *headers* would require a lot of changes.

What do you expect me to answer to such a question? Enigmail is not the
right tool if you want to call an "external script" for any kind of
purpose; Enigmail is specifically made to work with inline-PGP and
PGP/MIME messages, processed by GnuPG. I.e. Enigmail needs the decrypted
or verified message, together with the GnuPG status output.

Actually I think the effort for doing this would be the same as for a
"real" (i.e. correct, clean) solution, but I doubt that I would accept a
patch for such a hack.

At best you could try to write a wrapper shell script around gpg.

-Patrick

[ANN] Enigmail v0.95.6 available

I have released Enigmail v0.95.6 for Thunderbird 2.0 and Seamonkey 1.1

Changes
=======
This release fixes a bug introduced in a previous version of Enigmail
that leads to incorrectly verified inline-PGP messages. Furthermore,
there are several fixes related to translated versions.

Obtaining Enigmail
==================
Enigmail can be downloaded from <http://enigmail.mozdev.org/download.html>

The changelog is available from <http://enigmail.mozdev.org/changelog.html>

Patrick

GnuPG 1.4.8

Happy new year!

In December 2007 GnuPG 1.4.8 was released. I'm wondering, if this
version is now compatible to Windows Vista (key server problems)?

Regards
Alex Ihrig
Thunderbird Mail DE

Re: GnuPG 1.4.8

Alexander Ihrig wrote:
> Happy new year!
> 
> In December 2007 GnuPG 1.4.8 was released. I'm wondering, if this
> version is now compatible to Windows Vista (key server problems)?

Yes, the fix for that issue has been in the subversion code repository from
about a week after 1.4.7 was released.

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Re: GnuPG 1.4.8

Alexander Ihrig wrote:
> Happy new year!

And to you!

> In December 2007 GnuPG 1.4.8 was released. I'm wondering, if this
> version is now compatible to Windows Vista (key server problems)?

The best place to ask these questions is GnuPG-Users.  You can find
information on that mailing list at http://www.gnupg.org.  The Enigmail
list is a great place to ask about Enigmail questions--not necessarily
so much of a great place to ask GnuPG questions.

However, I asked this same question on GnuPG-Users just a couple of
weeks ago, so I'll tell you what David Shaw told me.  :)  1.4.8 solves
the Vista keyserver problems.

[ANN] New Website

I am very happy to announce that a new Enigmail website is now live at
http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

My special thanks go to Olav and his wife for the design and structure
of the new site.

Please report any errors (wrong or missing links, etc.) directly to me.

-Patrick

How to send using a shared key

How do I use enigmail to send encrypted e-mail to a list using a 
pre-communicated symmetric key?

Thanks,
Jim Rome

Re: How to send using a shared key

On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 22:16 -0500, James Rome wrote:
> How do I use enigmail to send encrypted e-mail to a list using a 
> pre-communicated symmetric key?

There is no easy way to do this.  There is almost certainly some way to
do this by tinkering with the command line, but that would be an awful
hack and should not be done except in the most extreme of circumstances.

Re: How to send using a shared key

James Rome wrote:
> How do I use enigmail to send encrypted e-mail to a list using a 
> pre-communicated symmetric key?

Create a Per-Recipient Rule to the List address and specifying
Encryption using the List Key.

JOHN ;)
Timestamp: Saturday 05 Jan 2008, 23:18  --500 (Eastern Standard Time)