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On Sat, 08 Nov 1997 Gerhard Poul wrote:
>This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
>--------------0E56CE8C16CFEDC6B509190D
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

No, this is a news reader you need to fix.

>Does someone know how i can integrate the pgp into netscape
>communicator??

Not directly, as far as I know.  If someone can correct me, please do.

>Or what are you thinking of the encryption mechanism of netscape
>communicator??

If you want to make sure that there isn't a hacker on one of your routers
reading mail, it should be fine.  If you are using encryption for anything
of serious value, you may want to be wary of any product you don't compile
yourself.  I'll skip the requisite stories about Netscape's "random" number
generation, simple decryption utilities for Office, etc.

>(I don't want to pay something for it, so it would be very cool if there
>is a method to "plugin" PGP into communicator under linux)

Well, I think there is, though you may have to be indirect about it.

Isn't it possible to configure or patch sendmail so that it automatically
signs and/or encrypts messages according to recipient?  This would have the
added advantage that it would be "configure and forget" and would work with
any mail program.  You would just make sure that Netscape was set to send
mail to "localhost," and there you go.

A quick web search shows "pgpsendmail," which is a wrapper for sendmail to
do just this.  You can get .rpm files of it at http://linux.stt.it (a site
I'd like to recommend, by the way - the .rpm search engine is absolutely
beautiful) or can probably find tarballs to install via HotBot.
---
Roy Stogner

roystgnr@roystgnr.jones.rice.edu (Roy Stogner) writes:

>On Sat, 08 Nov 1997 Gerhard Poul wrote:
>>This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

>No, this is a news reader you need to fix.

That's open to debate. Usenet messages are supposed to have the same
format as mail messages. Mail messages can use MIME. So one could argue
that Usenet messages should allow MIME. OTOH, there are still a lot of
Newsreaders out there which cannot handle MIME, and since Usenet
(except for the binary hierarchies) is supposed to be text-only there
is not much need for MIME (except Content-type: text/plain; charset=
headers for non-ASCII messages), so one should avoid sending MIME
messages to the Usenet.

>  If you are using encryption for anything
>of serious value, you may want to be wary of any product you don't compile
>yourself.

Compilation doesn't give you much security. Reading the source (or
having other people read the source) does.


>Well, I think there is, though you may have to be indirect about it.

>Isn't it possible to configure or patch sendmail so that it automatically
>signs and/or encrypts messages according to recipient? 

Sendmail could encrypt messages, but it cannot sign them for you,
unless it knows your secret key. And I hope you don't want to give your
secret key to sendmail. Sendmail could sign them with
"postmaster@your.host" or something like that to certify that the mail
did originate at your host.

	hp
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