On Tuesday 28 July 2009 06:34:40 Eli Wapniarski wrote: > On Tuesday 28 July 2009 01:36:55 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. > > > > Kevin Kofler > > But maybe it would be a good idea to get upstream provide some inidication > of that on the dialogue box itself and scanning should most definitely not > fail because the option is not available. The complete failure of scan INHO > is a bug. > > Eli What fails? It's never caused me a problem, and it's been there for years. 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/20090728/6903f253/attachment.bin
