Re: [openpgp] Character encodings

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[e-mail]>]

On Wed 2015-03-18 09:08:26 -0400, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> This makes it a lot easier for folk who have an S/MIME implementation to
> add OpenPGP support. It is also the approach that has been debugged and is
> known to work with legacy mail infrastructure.
>
> One of the main challenges with end-to-end mail is Webmail which is now
> used by most mail users. It is possible to get end-to-end to work with
> webmail on the receiver side but it requires a mechanism that allows the
> server to say 'here is an encrypted blob in format X, decrypt it with the
> key you hold locally and present it to the user'. On the sender side you
> need an editing widget that can be called out that will deliver the content
> to be encrypted.
>
> That is going to be easiest to get from the browser community if there is
> least variation between the E2E email formats.

Please take a look at the "end-to-end" website API:

 https://github.com/google/end-to-end/wiki/Website-API

I don't think it covers all the cases you describe, but it's nicely
concise at the moment, and maybe just needs a few tweaks to be able to
reach some of the mechanisms you're looking for.

      --dkg