On Monday 27 July 2009 23:36:55 Kevin Kofler wrote: > I wrote: > > That's normal. Chiasmus was developed by the BSI (more or less Germany's > > equivalent of the NSA) and so all their work is classified by default. > > They only declassified a Window$ binary. There's evidence towards the > > existence of a GNU/Linux command-line version, but said version appears > > to be still classified and thus not publicly available. And the source > > code appears to be classified entirely. So I don't think Chiasmus will be > > available in Fedora any time soon. > > PS: And the only reason it's supported at all in KMail is that the > companies working on KMail encryption were contracted by the German BSI and > the BSI apparently requested that option to be present for their internal > use. > > If the presence of the useless option really annoys or confuses users, we > could of course patch it out, but I don't think it's worth doing that. > It's never worried me. For a long time I assumed that it was a Work in Progress, and since it never interfered with anything I ignored it. All the same, I can imagine that for some people the inability to get it to work might be worrying, so some sort of explanation would be good. Could you think of a suitably-worded short explanation that we could add to http://userbase.kde.org/KMail/FAQs_Hints_and_Tips ? Something that just reassures that for most people it has no relevance. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20090728/32338e0e/attachment.bin
