[Mailman-Developers] GSOC Project idea: OpenPGP integration

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Abhilash Raj writes:

 > Can you tell about who is going to mentor this(OpenPGP integration with
 > mailman)

I would guess the official mentors are likely to be myself and Wacky
(Richard Wackerbarth).  Joost isn't official (why not? -- you get a
T-shirt! :-) but he has expressed interest and offered help.

Lack of a secure through-the-mail channel for several aspects of
Mailman is a pain point for many users, though, so I suspect there
will be a lot of interest (including suggestions and even code
contributions) from non-mentors.  I strongly suggest that you keep the
discussion on this list for that reason.

I will also try to be available on IRC Freenode #mailman as yaseppochi
for the next two days (more or less 1am to 1pm UTC), and
intermittently after that.  Other mentors will probably be there, too.

 > so that I can discuss a few things about the application? Also
 > others can you please give me a few suggestion about proposal on
 > the idea that is discussed in this[1] thread.
 > 
 > [1]:
 > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2013-April/022675.html
 > 
 > Thanks,
 > 
 > 
 > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Joost van Baal-Ilić <
 > joostvb-mailman-developers at mdcc.cx> wrote:
 > 
 > > Hi Abhilash Raj,
 > >
 > > Abhilash Raj raj.abhilash1 at gmail.com schreef:
 > > >On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 4:47 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor
 > > ><dkg at fifthhorseman.net>wrote:
 > > >> On 04/06/2013 06:53 PM, Paul Wise wrote:
 > > >> > On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 5:19 AM, Abhilash Raj wrote:
 > > >> >
 > > >> >> I am a undergrad student interested in OpenPGP integration in mailman
 > > >> >> as a GSOC project this summer.
 > >
 > > >> neat, i'm glad to hear it!
 > >
 > > Be aware however: it's not an easy task, as Daniel Kahn Gillmor pointed
 > > out.
 > >
 > > >> > I'm not sure about the scope of your project but you may want to
 > > >> > review some prior efforts:
 > > >> >
 > > >> > http://schleuder2.nadir.org/
 > > >> > http://www.synacklabs.net/projects/crypt-ml/
 > > >>
 > > >> see also:
 > > >>
 > > >>   http://non-gnu.uvt.nl/mailman-pgp-smime/
 > > >>   http://sels.ncsa.illinois.edu/
 > > >>
 > > >> > My pet favourite feature from the lurker mail archiver is showing
 > > >> > photos from OpenPGP keys in the archive pages.
 > > >>
 > > >Thanks for these links. I am currently going through these projects to
 > > >figure out the implementation part of the OpenPGP into mailman. Also
 > > trying
 > > >to use the mailman-php-smime patch to figure out how it is implemented.
 > >
 > > The Mailman Secure List Server Patch hasn't been touched since 2010-09.
 > >  It's a
 > > patch for mailman-2.1.15, not for the development branch.  However,
 > > studying it
 > > will surely give you some inspiration.  Some code might be reusable too.
 > >
 > > If you'd like to discuss details of this patch, you're invited to join the
 > > list
 > > at ssls-dev at ulm.ccc.de.
 > >
 > > I'd be glad to help you dealing with the work.
 > >
 > > Bye,
 > >
 > > Joost
 > >
 > > --
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 > >
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > -- 
 > Abhilash Raj
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