Subject: Regarding PGP support

From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 10:00:41 -0700 (PDT)

There have been several messages on this topic recently; here's my $.02...

 o Support for private/authenticated mail is clearly important.
 o We do not expect to bundle encryption code in the Pine distribution.
 o We do not expect to purchase technology from ViaCrypt.
 o Additional alternatives will be coming from MIT "real soon now".
 o The suggestion that we provide hooks so that an *external* package
   can enhance/de-enhance a message seems exactly right to me.
 o In 3.90 "pipe to cmd" and "mailcap" support may provide part of the 
   answer (for processing incoming messages).
 o Feasibility of the "external processing" approach has yet to be verified.
 o Nothing has been done yet about hooks for outgoing msgs.  It's not
   likely that this will be done in time for 3.90, unless it turns out to
   be dead easy. 

-teg

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From: "Robert A. Hayden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 13:49:23 -0500 (CDT)

Please note, it is very easy to PGP-sign a pine mailing.

A) create a script outside of pine.  I call mine 'picopgp'.

====picopgp====

#!/bin/sh

pico -z -t $1
pgp -sat $1
mv $1.asc $1

====end========

B)  Set your alternate editor to this script (if in your path, just picopgp)

C)  When you want to pgp-sign your message, invoke your alternate editor 
and when you exit it, you will be asked for your password and then will 
have a signed message.

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 18:30:28 -0700 (PDT)

Thanks Robert.  That's good news.

-teg

> Please note, it is very easy to PGP-sign a pine mailing.

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From: "Robert A. Hayden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 20:46:08 -0500 (CDT)

> Thanks Robert.  That's good news.

If you are looking for something to do with it (pine people), you could 
probably integrate something like that into pine itself.  Have a .pinerc 
flag 'pgp-enable' and some perhaps a 'do you want to PGPSign this 
message' prompt.  Or perhaps control-E to exit construction of a message 
and sign it.

I'd think it would be very easy to do, won't require any integration of
PGP itself, and would be pretty intutive, I'd think.