[dev] GPG implemented in javascript

Carl Denis c.denis at mrduck.fr
Wed Nov 23 08:32:12 UTC 2011


Hello,

for sure I cannot appraise the complexity of a change.

Nevertheless, I believe hiding from the "own" admin is not the main
goal, but increased cloud computing potentially gives more unknown
admins access to Emails and especially GPG/SMIME private keys if
encryption is already used in IMP.

Carl

On 11/23/2011 05:59 AM, Michael M Slusarz wrote:
> Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:
> 
>> Store keys in client-side storage, encrypt/decrypt with this? Probably
>> plenty of problems around MIME, but...
>>
>> http://gpg4browsers.recurity.com/
> 
> Don't see what this provides better than the current implementation,
> other than the extremely paranoid that don't want server admins from
> ever seeing the cleartext of their messages.  But appeasing those few
> doesn't seem worthwhile at the expense of having to entirely change the
> way we deliver message text to the browser for this one, specific purpose.
> 
> michael
> 
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