Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC Project: pgp plugin

2016-03-26 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Jonas writes: > I would release the proposal on the project blog > cryptolists.github.io after the proposal deadline has passed. Is > there any reason not to? Privacy of proposals is entirely the student's choice. Legally, neither Google nor Mailman makes any claim to your proposal, except th

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC Project: pgp plugin

2016-03-24 Thread Jonas
Hey, I have tried to update my draft according to your suggestions, Abhilash Raj and Stephen. You should see a new URL for this third draft on your dashboard. The new draft includes a merge request and more details on how I plan to implement the extension. I'm aware that I will still have to do al

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC Project: pgp plugin

2016-03-22 Thread Jonas
I was not going to exclude anyone from a discussion relevant to them or start an offtopic conversation. I uploaded my draft yesterday, summerofcode.withgoogle.com worked after I switched from firefox to chromium. However to update the file to my local working copy – I can't help it– I had to creat

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC Project: pgp plugin

2016-03-19 Thread Jonas
Thank you Stephen. I agree with your points and I will make sure to clearly document any potential security pitfalls of the system for the users and to write a detailed and precise design plan that has special emphasis on security implications before I start coding this project. However, at the m

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC Project: pgp plugin

2016-03-18 Thread Abhilash Raj
Hi Jonas, On 03/18/2016 10:29 AM, Jonas wrote: > Thank you Stephen. > > I agree with your points and I will make sure to clearly document any > potential security pitfalls of the system for the users and to write a > detailed and precise design plan that has special emphasis on security > implica

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC Project: pgp plugin

2016-03-18 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Abhilash Raj writes: Thanks for picking this up, Abhilash! Jonas writes: > > However, at the moment I'm in the middle of writing my Project Proposal. > > May I send you a draft along with personal questions? If you mean do I like cats, I don't see what that has to do with GSoC. ;-) If you me

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC Project: pgp plugin

2016-02-29 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Jonas writes: > On 28.02.2016 10:30, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > End-to-end encryption or signature or both seems to be the right > > thing. > > The concept of a mailserver doesn't allow real end-to-end encryption if > each recipient uses a different keypair. It's true that keeping thi

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC Project: pgp plugin

2016-02-29 Thread Abhilash Raj
On 02/29/2016 03:02 AM, Jonas wrote: > Hi Abhilash Raj, Hi Steve > > Thank you both for taking the time and considering to mentor me. > > On 28.02.2016 04:48, Abhilash Raj wrote: >> If you don't know, I worked on this project some time back in GSoC 2013. >> The current state of that project is n

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC Project: pgp plugin

2016-02-29 Thread Jonas
Hi Abhilash Raj, Hi Steve Thank you both for taking the time and considering to mentor me. On 28.02.2016 04:48, Abhilash Raj wrote: > If you don't know, I worked on this project some time back in GSoC 2013. > The current state of that project is not very good and probably needs a > *lot* of reba

[Mailman-Developers] GSoC Project: pgp plugin

2016-02-28 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Jonas writes: > The Project Idea: > Encrypted malinglists have been been a much-requested feature in mailman > 2 and I would like to run some encrypted mailinglists myself. I see Abhilash has already mentioned that he has done some work on crypto (PGP) in Mailman 3. I'll let him explain that.

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC Project: pgp plugin

2016-02-27 Thread Abhilash Raj
Hi Jonas, On 27 February 2016 at 10:35, Jonas wrote: > Hello Mailman developers, > > I was planning to write a pgp-encryption plugin for Mailman 3 that > manages one keypair per list and pubkeys of the subscribers. > I'm considering to do it as my first-time Google Summer of Code project. > Wel

[Mailman-Developers] GSoC Project: pgp plugin

2016-02-27 Thread Jonas
Hello Mailman developers, I was planning to write a pgp-encryption plugin for Mailman 3 that manages one keypair per list and pubkeys of the subscribers. I'm considering to do it as my first-time Google Summer of Code project. I have read the GSoC 2016 rules and the Mailman wiki GSoC 2016 pages.