Pros and cons of PGP/MIME for outgoing e-mail?

2014-11-23 Thread Bjarni Runar Einarsson
Hello gnupg-users! I am the lead dev on Mailpile, a free software e-mail client where we're doing our best to improve the usability of PGP-encrypted e-mail. I have been pondering for quite some time the relative merits of various ways of formatting otugoing encrypted mail, and this weekend I took

Re: Pros and cons of PGP/MIME for outgoing e-mail?

2014-11-23 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> As folks on this list have been using GPG in the real world longer than > most, I would very much appreciate your feedback, experience and > opinions. This subject tends to get a lot of very passionate opinions on both sides. The FAQ covers both: https://www.gnupg.org/faq/gnupg-faq.html#use_pg

Re: Pros and cons of PGP/MIME for outgoing e-mail?

2014-11-23 Thread Samir Nassar
On Sunday, 2014-11-23 13:12:47 Bjarni Runar Einarsson wrote: > https://www.mailpile.is/blog/2014-11-21_To_PGP_MIME_Or_Not.html > > The "tl;dr" is that it might be worth dropping PGP/MIME for outgoing > encrypted mail and instead use a more ad-hoc approach which > interoperates with more mail clien

Re: Re: Pros and cons of PGP/MIME for outgoing e-mail?

2014-11-23 Thread Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson
Hi Samir, Samir Nassar wrote: > I would care more about the arguments if you were able to re-state them > while dropping references to legacy email clients. I don't think new mail > clients have an obligation to be backwards compatible. > > If you, and others, think the PGP/MIME RFC is incomple

Re: Pros and cons of PGP/MIME for outgoing e-mail?

2014-11-23 Thread Nan
Hi Bjarni, Our choice was based on compatibility and reliability. For an outgoing encrypted message, if there's an attachment GoodCrypto sends PGP/MIME, otherwise PGP in the body. We decrypt both formats. Glad to hear Mailpile is in Beta. Good luck! Nan GoodCrypto warning: Anyone could have r

Re: GnuPG 2.1.0 "modern" released

2014-11-23 Thread Michael Felt
Same question: who to submit bug too? libgcrypt is not compiling (all other pre-requistes are done). Thanks. "../src/mpi.h", line 292.16: 1506-343 (S) Redeclaration of _gcry_mpi_ec_set_mpi differs from previous declaration on line 423 of "../src/gcrypt-int.h". "../src/mpi.h", line 292.16: 1506-0

Re: GnuPG 2.1.0 "modern" released

2014-11-23 Thread Michael Felt
Hello, I am looking into packaging gnupg-2.1.0 for AIX, and I know I need to package the other libraries as well. However, configure is reporting - in config.log that AIX does not have libiconv - which it does. So, my question is: to which gnu tool should I report a bug? This is, I assume, not a

Re: Pros and cons of PGP/MIME for outgoing e-mail?

2014-11-23 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Sunday 23 November 2014 13:12:47 Bjarni Runar Einarsson wrote: > Hello gnupg-users! > > I am the lead dev on Mailpile, a free software e-mail client where we're > doing our best to improve the usability of PGP-encrypted e-mail. I have > been pondering for quite some time the relative merits of

Re: Pros and cons of PGP/MIME for outgoing e-mail?

2014-11-23 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Sunday 23 November 2014 18:05:03 Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson wrote: > Hi Samir, > > Samir Nassar wrote: > > I would care more about the arguments if you were able to re-state them > > while dropping references to legacy email clients. I don't think new mail > > clients have an obligation to be bac