[Bug 94114] posibility to encrypt received unencrypted emails

[Hauke Laging]

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94114


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--- Comment #4 from Hauke Laging <hauke laging de>  2009-01-08 01:08:40 ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Even though I'm not one of the developers, in my opinion this would be a bad
> idea. With this logic _every_ program should have to include its own encryption
> backend because the data it handles is possibly sensitive.

That's a strange argument as far as IMAP storage is concerned. Please mind that
more and more people switch from POP3 to IMAP. There is no other option for
protecting data on IMAP. It would be neither a program-specific backend
(because you can use GPG for any kind of data) nor be new as kmail already has
the capability to decrypt and encrypt emails. The only change would be to
encrypt a received mail instead of a sent one.


> General encryption of files should be handled as such: encrypted files or
> filesystems.

Correct but irrelevant as this is not an option for those who use an IMAP
service provider (does not make sense to propose everyone might set up his own
IMAP server just in order to get around this simple and elegant solution by
forcing volume encryption to become an option).


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