[Kde-pim] pintentry-qt4 integrated upstream

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Friday 29 May 2009, Till Adam wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I wanted to give the interested parties a heads up that we've managed
> to get pinentry-qt4, the Qt4 rewrite of the pinentry application for
> the gnupg crypto stack, integrated into upstream gnupg.

Awesome.


> So now there 
> is a pinentry available that will look and work the same way on all
> relevant platforms. We based this on the initial version in
> playground, written by Ingo Kloecker, if I remember correctly,

Yeah, I hacked this crude Qt4 port of the Qt3 version in Glasgow because 
I needed a pinentry on the MacBook. :-)


> added 
> a bunch of features like use of secmem, a password strength meter,
> etc, to bring it to feature parity with and to the same level of
> security as the other pinentry implementations in gnupg (console,
> gtk+, native Windows). It is now integrated with gnupg's pinentry
> subversion module and package and built as part of that if qt4 is
> found on the system. It can crosscompile to windows via gcc's mingw
> target and builds natively on Mac and Linux. It also builds natively
> on Windows, in theory, using cygwin's autotools support. We have not
> been able to convince the gnupg community of moving to cmake. Yet. ;)
> Since this is a standalone binary it should also work fine in
> otherwise MSVC built KDE installations, for example, no linking
> required.
>
> This means that the version in playgroud should be deprecated and no
> longer packaged. Maybe we should remove it, or mark it as read-only?
> Ingo?

Feel free to remove it now that it has found a new cozy home.


> We, that is KDAB, Intevation and g10-code, are committed to
> maintaining this version of pinentry along with the rest of gnupg and
> kdepim, of course. Making this work has been a joint effort of said
> companies.

Thanks for taking care of "my" baby! :-)


Regards,
Ingo
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