[imp] Interest in Sponsoring "S/MIME signing and decryption using browser APIs"

[Simon B]

On 12 Jul 2016 3:21 pm, "Michael Menge" <michael.menge at zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> At the moment cryptographic signing and decryption of mails with imp
requires
> that the private key is stored on the web server.
>
> Some years ago there was a attempt to implement S/MIME signing with
browser capabilities
> for firefox (https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/2782). But the implementation
wasn't included
> in IMP.
>
> In the meantime there are projects to standardized the APIs
>
> "Javascript Object Signing and Encryption (jose)"
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/jose/documents/
>
> "Web Cryptography API"
> https://www.w3.org/2012/webcrypto/
>
> Is there anyone else that would be willing to help to fund
>
>    "S/MIME signing and decryption using browser APIs"

I would contribute..

> @horde devs how much money would be needed to implement using these APIs?
> and how long would it take?