Bug 4192 – GPG/PGP support

Bug 4192 - GPG/PGP support


Summary:	GPG/PGP support

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Product:	Email
Component:	General
Version:	5.0/(3.2010.02-8)
Platform:	All Maemo

Importance:	Low enhancement with 64 votes (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	unassigned
QA Contact:	modest-bugs

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Reported:	2009-03-07 14:52 UTC by Lucas Maneos
Modified:	2012-03-24 11:45 UTC (History)
CC List:	9 users (show)

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Description Lucas Maneos (reporter) 2009-03-07 14:52:55 UTC

SOFTWARE VERSION:
5.2008.43-7

STEPS TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM:

Try to use modest to communicate with users of PGP/GnuPG.

EXPECTED OUTCOME:

Ability to sign and/or encrypt outgoing messages, decrypt received
PGP-encrypted messages and verify signatures of received PGP-signed messages.

Ideally should be able to parse/generate both old-style inline PGP and PGP/MIME
(RFC2015) messages.

ACTUAL OUTCOME:

No PGP support in modest.

REPRODUCIBILITY:

Always.

EXTRA SOFTWARE INSTALLED:

Claws-mail and mutt, both of which handle PGP fine.

OTHER COMMENTS:

In the past this would be blocked by the severely cut-down version of gnupg
shipped with maemo, but the diablo version is fairly complete.

Keychain management features can be considered outside the scope of this, as
they can be fulfilled with command-line gpg or third-party tools.

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.7)
Gecko/2009030423 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.7

Comment 1 Andre Klapper maemo.org

2009-03-10 21:16:46 UTC

Supporting **Inline** PGP is a PITA because it's very badly defined - Charsets
etc.

Also see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217540 and
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217541

Comment 2 Lucas Maneos (reporter) 2009-03-10 22:04:27 UTC

Indeed, lots of valid points.  Withdrawing the inline PGP support, even if
feasible, to avoid perpetuating a bad practice.

Comment 3 Quim Gil nokia

2009-03-10 22:48:49 UTC

See Bug 2779 - Modest doesn't support S/MIME encryption

Comment 4 Lucas Maneos (reporter) 2009-03-11 02:33:35 UTC

Yeah, they are different standards.  S/MIME is based on X.509 certificates
(thus requiring PKI) while PGP/MIME uses the OpenPGP web-of-trust.  An email
client could support both without conflict.

Comment 5 Andre Klapper maemo.org

2009-11-16 15:36:30 UTC

Note that there is also a proposal in Brainstorm called "get encryption average
joe ready" which covers this.

Comment 6 mr.gosh 2010-04-06 11:33:29 UTC

It`s a key feature that should be implemented fast.
Privacy is one of the most important arguments for the N900 or other maemo
baswed devices.

Blackberry intagrates this very good, but no one trusts a single company, so
most people don`t put the private Key into there - on maemo this problem isn`t
present!

So please Integrate GPG - Than TOR and so on!

Comment 7 Matthew Wronka 2010-04-06 16:06:54 UTC

(In reply to comment #6)
> So please Integrate [...] Than TOR and so on!

This isn't relevant to the bug, and not entirely appropriate here, but there is
already excellent Tor support for the N900, including an application for
enabling/disabling from the main N900 menu (status bar?).
http://maemo.org/packages/view/tor/

Also, for reference in the bug, the URL for the brainstorm mentioned in comment
#5 is:
http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/view/get_encryption_average_joe_ready/

Comment 8 Rüdiger Schiller 2010-04-21 19:42:37 UTC

Please change "Version" to current, thanks for the link.

Comment 9 Lucas Maneos (reporter) 2010-07-01 13:01:08 UTC

*** Bug 10844 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10 Andre Klapper maemo.org

2012-03-24 11:45:18 UTC

The Maemo 5 User Interface and Maemo 5 platform components (e.g. libraries)
used for the N900 are considered stable by Nokia and it seems that there are no
plans for official updates currently, hence nobody plans to work on this
enhancement/wishlist request. 
(And in case you feel like discussing this situation: Nokia Customer Care or
http://talk.maemo.org would be the place to do so as you will not reach Nokia
officials in this community bugtracker - though all of this is really no news.)

Reflecting this status by setting RESOLVED WONTFIX for this
enhancement/wishlist request (see
https://bugs.maemo.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#status for status explanations).

There is a small chance for issues in those Maemo components that are open
source: Contributed patches could be included and made available in the Maemo 5
Community CSSU updates. 
The Maemo CSSU project is run by a small team of volunteers; see
http://wiki.maemo.org/CSSU for more information.
So in case that you can provide a patch that fixes the reported problem, please
feel encouraged to file a request under
https://bugs.maemo.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Maemo%205%20Community%20SSU .
Please note: The Maemo CSSU project is not related in any way to Nokia.


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