Re: S/MIME in Thunderbird (and why its assumptions are bogus)

2009-07-10 Thread aerowolf
2009/6/26 Michael Ströder : Nelson B Bolyard wrote: But only a small minority of mail users use MUAs that reside on their own computers today.  Webmail rules, That might be true in the U.S. It's not true here in Germany. and entrusting your private key to your free webmail provider makes n

Re: S/MIME in Thunderbird

2009-07-10 Thread Jean-Marc Desperrier
Michael Ströder wrote: - add a time-stamp and update the S/MIME capabilities and timestamp whenever a new S/MIME message is received. - use the cert extension solely when no signed S/MIME message was received so far or the notBefore date of the e-mail cert is newer than the timestamp of the last

Secret Storage API specification project

2009-07-10 Thread Michael Leupold
Hi, A while ago Stef Walter (GNOME Keyring) and me (KDE Wallet) started to draft a common D-BUS API for secret information storage. It's meant to make Keyring- and KWallet-like daemons available under a common D-BUS interface and thus increase interoperability between GNOME, KDE and other appli