Re: notmuch-autocrypt

Subject: Re: notmuch-autocrypt

Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2025 18:17:06 +0100

To: Frank Seifferth, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: Sandra Snan


Frank Seifferth <frankseifferth@posteo.net> writes:
> My script is very similar in spirit to the MVP proposed by 
> Antoine Beaupré in April 2023, yet it offers a slightly different 
> UI. One of my main design decisions was *not* to introduce the 
> idea of an accounts and a peers table into notmuch. Instead, I 
> simply treat the email database as if it were a local key server 
> that can be queried to import keys into the gpg keyring by 
> running, e.g.,
>
>     notmuch autocrypt --locate-keys frankseifferth@posteo.net
>
> This UI deliberately mirrors gpg, where you can run `gpg 
> --locate-keys` to retrieve keys from a WKD. I found it very 
> natural to model the autocrypt key import functionality as a 
> query against the email database, and I believe that this 
> approach might be more promising than sticking too closely to the 
> UI described in the autocrypt spec.

As one of the main "contributors" 😅 to the previous efforts I 
like your approach! Seems like it'd be way less flimsy. 
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