Date: 12 Nov 2002 22:38:48 +0000 From: Stacey Roberts <stacey@Demon.vickiandstacey.com> To: FreeBSD Gnome <freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: [Fwd: Re: [Evolution] Evolution-1.2 vs pgp encryption] Message-ID: <1037140728.983.7.camel@localhost>
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Hello,
Got an update from (what appears to be) one of the evolution
developers with respect to pgp here.
I'll respond to his e-mail, but I figured list members (in particular
the gnome ports maintainer) know what the deal is. If this is wrong,
please let me know.
Stacey
-----Forwarded Message-----
> From: Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj@ximian.com>
> To: Stacey Roberts <stacey@Demon.vickiandstacey.com>
> Cc: evolution@ximian.com
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Evolution-1.2 vs pgp encryption
> Date: 12 Nov 2002 17:16:46 -0500
>
> On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 15:51, Stacey Roberts wrote:
> > ?Hello,
> > I've just updated evolution on a box here:
> > $ uname -a
> > FreeBSD Demon.vickiandstacey.com 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #0: Sat
> > Oct 12 10:04:03 BST 2002
> > root@Demon.vickiandstacey.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FALCON i386
> > $
> >
> > I followed the instruction included in the link sent by Joe Marcus
> > Clarke:
> > http://developer.ximian.com/projects/evolution/release_notes/1.2.html
> >
> > Then restarted Evolution, which appeared to load okay. However I
> > attempted to test sending mail, and found that I am no longer able to
> > send email with "PGP Sign" enabled. I get the error: "Failed to execute
> > gpg". I have always had pgp-6.5.8 insatalled *and* working with
> > Evolution-1.0.8, is pgp-6.5.8 support now broken for the new version?
>
> Evolution no longer supports anything other than gnupg.
>
> Why not? because I rewrote the pgp backend code to be much more robust
> and pgp2, pgp5, and pgp6.5.8 didn't have the options I needed such as
> --status-fd nor --command-fd so they were dropped.
>
> there were also numerous problems with the pgp programs such as:
>
> - pgp2 will always exit with the status code of 0, depsite whether or
> not the signature being verified was valid or not.
>
> - pgp6.5.8 will re-prompt for the passphrase on stdin even when in batch
> mode. This causes major problems when being used by another application
> because if the user supplied a wrong passphrase, then pgp6 would wait
> for a second passphrase to be given on stdin except that evolution
> expects that pgp6 is waiting for the message data on stdin, and so
> passes that instead... at which point evolution then waits for pgp6 to
> exit and write the decrypted/signed/whatever data to stdout, which it
> never does because it hasn't gotten a valid password yet.
>
> doesn't that sound like fun?
>
> >
> > I looked everywhere for what used to be the field to include the pgp
> > binary (as it was in Evolution-1.08, which I had until earlier today),
> > but can't locate it. Evolution help only points me to where I include my
> > key under the security tab, but nothing else.
>
> Yea, the option doesn't exist anymore. We now just use execvp() and let
> the shell find the pgp binary for us. It makes the UI oh so much simpler
> for the average user.
>
> Jeff
>
> --
> Jeffrey Stedfast
> Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
> fejj@ximian.com - www.ximian.com
>
>
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--
Stacey Roberts
B.Sc (HONS) Computer Science
Web: www.vickiandstacey.com
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