[guardian-dev] shared Java lib for accessing OpenPGP keyservers

Abel Luck abel at guardianproject.info
Fri Dec 6 05:38:16 EST 2013


Hans-Christoph Steiner:
> 
> So I've recently realized that a lot of the complexity in the GnuPG suite is
> the keyserver stuff for both OpenPGP and S/MIME.  S/MIME is pretty low
> priority for us, so I was thinking of ignoring the GnuPG keyserver stuff
> (dirmngr, etc) and using a Android-native Java implementation.
> 

Could you elaborate a bit more on the complexities? What's the difficulty?

> That would be much easier to add Tor support to, and to integrate into the UI.
>  I figure this code already exists to some degree in APG and OpenPGP Keychain,
> its just a matter of restructuring it into a shared library so we can share
> the code.
> 
> How does this sound?

What would the consequences of this be? What features would shift from Gnupg to native
Java? Searching and fetching keys? Anything else (ignoring s/mime stuff)

~abel


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