bug#39886: [PATCH] Add EPA keyserver client

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

philip@warpmail.net (Philip K.) writes:

> This was developed as part of an university project to work on
> Cryptography in Email clients for Emacs. So the idea would be that this
> would make it easier to find keys when sending or receiving a message
> (we also developed an autocrypt[0] and openpgp.org client[1], but didn't
> get around to officially submitting the latter anywhere).
>
> The only "problem" would be, if it were admitted into ELPA, it would
> require some more code to integrate it into various mail clients, as [0]
> and [1] do.

I think this makes more sense in Emacs core than in ELPA, really -- it's
infrastructure that could help the Emacs mail clients navigate the key
servers, which would be helpful (because it's pretty opaque currently).

Any other opinions?

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