[kmail2] [Bug 318005] New: promote OpenPGP (and S/MIME) services for non-crypto users

[Hauke Laging]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318005

            Bug ID: 318005
           Summary: promote OpenPGP (and S/MIME) services for non-crypto
                    users
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: kmail2
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
               URL: http://www.openpgp-schulungen.de/
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: crypto
          Assignee: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: hauke at laging.de

Hardly anyone uses crypto. I assume that nearly everyone who is involved in the
development of crypto software would like this to change. My experience is that
quite few people decide completely by themselves to have a look at this topic.
I guess that the big majority of users has been contacted by others about this
and has been offered help.

For a few months I have been working on a non-commercial project (up to now
limited to Germany though) which aims at creating more free OpenPGP courses and
offer a list of these services to the public. The project web site is
http://www.openpgp-schulungen.de/ (German only).

My idea is that crypto-capable (but non-crypto-specific) software like KMail
should advertise such projects if it detects that it is configured for a
country in which one exists (I don't know of any similar project abroad yet)
and that OpenPGP is not used yet (and S/MIME neither). This could be done by an
additional menu entry "OpenPGP" or "crypto" which would just open a dialog
window with some short remarks about the OpenPGP support in KMail and the link
to the local project (and a link to a list of all these projects).

Until now I have been much more successful in improving my own OpenPGP course
than in helping creating such offers elsewhere but this is the second step
anyway and I am optimistic about that. And given the time wishlist entries
usually take to get done I think it's not a mistake to mention this here now.
;-)  I will present this project at the next LinuxTag in Berlin (at the booth
of the Berlin LUG).

Furthermore: Given the amout of German KDE developers I guess there is a
certain chance that one or the other is interested in supporting this project
(or doing something similar in another country) though this is not about
programming (except for some scripting which I do myself).

Reproducible: Always

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