Subject: PINE and cryptography

From: [email-masked] (Wojtek Bogusz)
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 1994 13:06:27 GMT

Hello, 

 I would like to express few off my thoughts about what I need from
pine to be able to do in the field of cryptography.

 I was thinking about using pine with PGP. I even got a patch which
add to pico editor ability to crypt a message with recipients public
key or sign it with your key. But there is no possibility to decrypt a
message or check signature. What makes a usage of PGP impossible with
pine.

 Wouldn't it be nice to add some extended field to mail header.
Something like Content-Type: text/crypted, text/signature ...??? Such
header would cause pine to start a command defined in .pinerc or in
.mailcap This command would be started with some enviromental varialbe
like SENDING (RECEIVING), TMP_MAIL_FILE, FROM_USER, FROM_HOST,
TO_USER, TO_HOST read from the header. This command would get and
return a mail body through TMP_MAIL_FILE. In general it would be a
good way when receiving and sending mail. When sending pine could have
one extra field in Rich Hdr, Crypt: With value y or n And with default
set in .pinerc.

 There would be also nice to be able to store your mail crypted in the
folders on the disk. But it is reasonable (for example in PGP) to
store them crypted in different way than how they where during
sending/receiving (for example not in public-key but DES way).

 I wonder does anybody except me is interested to have thing like this
in pine :-) ? And does this what I wrote makes sense at all ?

 Regards
 Wojtek Bogusz

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 1994 22:43:57 -0700 (PDT)

Nathaniel Borenstein recently submitted a draft proposal for PGP support in
MIME.  It is very possible that Pine will support this proposal at some
point, assuming it develops in a reasonable fashion.  It is available as
draft-borenstein-pgp-mime-00.txt or draft-borenstein-pgp-mime-00.ps from your
nearest RFC repository (e.g. ftp.isi.edu). 

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