Re: [Evolution-hackers] Backend requesting arbitrary user input from frontend

2011-03-30 Thread Christian Hilberg
Hi Milan, On Wed 30 March 2011 Milan Crha wrote: On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 19:04 +0100, Christian Hilberg wrote: Of course, this is going to be fun - how to tell which of the possibly multiple EDS-frontends should receive the request? Ideally, the backends should be unaware of EDS-frontends...

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Backend requesting arbitrary user input from frontend

2011-03-29 Thread Milan Crha
On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 19:04 +0100, Christian Hilberg wrote: Of course, this is going to be fun - how to tell which of the possibly multiple EDS-frontends should receive the request? Ideally, the backends should be unaware of EDS-frontends... trouble galore! :) Hi, Matt suggested in

[Evolution-hackers] Backend requesting arbitrary user input from frontend

2011-03-23 Thread Christian Hilberg
Hi all. Part of the overall evolution-kolab project is to make it possible for Evolution (as a Kolab client) to use TPM [1] infrastructure. In short, it's all about certificate based client authentication, where clients can be forced to authenticate themselves against a server when

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Backend requesting arbitrary user input from frontend

2011-03-23 Thread Christian Hilberg
Hi again, Am Mittwoch 23 März 2011, um 18:03:32 schrieb Christian Hilberg: Hi all. [...] Maybe this is a more general thing than just having a backend requesting a user PIN. I can imagine other scenarios where a backend might need to request any user interaction, input, whatsoever, which is