[Alpine-info] PGP encryption in Alpine?

[Carl Edquist via Alpine-info]

Thanks Olaf and Carlos for the recommendations (topal and ppf scripts).

I'll give them a try!

I run my own patched alpine as it is, so i don't mind patching it further
if necessary to get the PGP/MIME support.

Carl

On Mon, Apr 8, 2024, 15:26 Carlos E. R. via Alpine-info <
alpine-info at u.washington.edu> wrote:


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> El 2024-04-08 a las 13:09 +0200, Olaf Skibbe via Alpine-info escribió:

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> > Hi Carl,

> >

> > On Mon, 8 Apr 2024 at 11:09, Carl Edquist via Alpine-info wrote:

> >

> >>  I'm curious if there is a recommended way to get PGP working with

> >>  Alpine, to read and send PGP encrypted mails?

> >>

> >>  Eduardo or anyone else here gotten this working?

> >

> > I use PGP in Alpine with Topal. This works well so far.

> >

> > https://green-pike.co.uk/topal/

> >

> > I use both programs (Alpine and Topal) from the Debian sources.

>

> I use ppf_ scripts or filters, from dougb (Douglas Barton):

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> http://dougbarton.us/PGP/scripts/ppf/           and/or

> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/dougb/

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>

> >

> > There is only one issue: As installed from the Debian sources, Topal

> > works only for PGP/Inline.

> >

> > Most of the people I know using PGP use PGP/MIME. This seems to be the

> > standard now, Thunderbird for instance has dropped support of

> > PGP/Inline some time ago. It is a little complicated to decrypt these

> > messages, especially when there are attachments included.

>

> Yes, this is indeed an issue.

>

> Alpine does not recognize signatures made by Thunderbird, and the other

> way around. In fact, people ask what is that stuff (text) in the middle of

> the email.

>

>

> > There is a patch for Alpine described in the Topal documentation to

> > make it capable of PGP/MIME. Since I use Alpine on several systems, I

> > very much like to stick with the distributed version (here Debian

> > stable with Alpine 2.26). I therefore never tried to install the

> > patch. An native Alpine with support of PGP/MIME would be great!

>

> Topal is available on openSUSE:

>

> Telcontar:~ # zypper info Topal

> ...

>

> Information for package topal:

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> Repository     : EXT: Packman Repository

> Name           : topal

> Version        : 76-150500.4.pm.5

> Arch           : x86_64

> Vendor         : http://packman.links2linux.de

> Installed Size : 2.1 MiB

> Installed      : No

> Status         : not installed

> Source package : topal-76-150500.4.pm.5.src

> Upstream URL   : https://zircon.org.uk/topal/

> Summary        : A tool to encrypt, decrypt, sign and verify emails

> Description    :

>      Topal is a "glue" program that links GnuPG and Pine/Alpine.

>      It offers facilities to encrypt, decrypt, sign and verify emails.

>

> Telcontar:~ #

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> - --

> Cheers,

>         Carlos E. R.

>         (from openSUSE 15.5 x86_64 at Telcontar)

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