Re:A thorough PGP tutorial
by jarrett on Sunday July 07, 2013 @08:31PM
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The issue is that plugins must generally be written in JavaScript. It's generally felt that, at least with the current state of technology, in-browser JavaScript interpreters haven't been sufficiently vetted to trust with crypto. For more details on this point: http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/
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Wow this answer is really disconcerting. Are we really so javascript/web programming oriented now that "plug-in" connotes javascript?
No I am not talking about JavaScript. I am talking about an actual application level plugin. Think flash, and silverlight not greasemonky.
GPG mail is a plug-in to Mall.app. My point is why not a similar browser plugin.
> Are we really so javascript/web programming oriented now that "plug-in" connotes javascript?
Yes, afraid so.
> I am talking about an actual application level plugin. Think flash, and silverlight not greasemonky.
This is absolutely an option. It's a tall order, because there are a lot of browser/OS combinations out there. But I believe it could be very successful.