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I like encryption as I think everybody has the right to communicate private things private.

Problem: even if kmail supports encryption fine but implementation and configuration of encryption keys and their handling is much too complicated.

Solution: There should be a wizard or something to configure and use encryption functionality without having to solve riddles what this and that function might be.

The alternative, of course, is that you could read the instructions on userbase to set it up.

I hope no one would make cryptography easy: if you loose the mechanism, you can not understand how to protect your data.
And soon encryption became normative and statuted, and soon and soon your data aren't protected anymore, you loosing the point, under the umbrella of law.

Why shouldn't it be easy to use?
Compare it with Kopete's OTR-plugin. That's really a nice and simple interface...

To be effective in its human component.

However, as you like: i used gpg in command line until last year and nothing force me to use it in the future

Most KMail-users do not want to implement a new encryption protocol, but maybe they want simply use GPG to encrypt their emails. That is ineffective??

This thread is totally pointless. Gpg has worked with KMail for several years, to my knowledge - probably much longer than I've been using it.

Most KMail users do not want to encrypt at all. It is their choice. Those that do will generally accept that it is wise to understand something about how encryption works, and be prepared to spend the time to learn about it.

You could say the same for computers in general. Why should there be a desktop environment, a graphical installer...?

I totally agree with this post, setting up encryption in kmail is way, way to complicated.

And I try not to ignore be astonished by idiotic comments like, why should it be simple... I mean really did you think for a second before typing that??

yeah, i usually think. I think is idiotic make encyiption simple. bye

Calling others comments idiotic isn't going to lead anywhere. If you don't agree with someone, please give arguments for why your way is better and skip the attacks on other people's opinions.

Encryption is (like computers in general) useful for nearly everybody. So why shouldn't there be an "anybody-interface"?

@Hans
you are right, but i didn't really thought he was serious with his comment, i thought it was just provoking...

Let me explain why encryption should be simple.
Encryption process it self should not be simple,
but using the encryption as a tool with Kmail should be simple.

Look at Mozilla thunderbird, process is so much painless than in Kmail.

I believe that encryption as a process of altering original message to (obfuscate) hide it content should not be simple, because it depends on complex mathematical algorithms, which are usually unsolvable like large prime number generation.

But can you tell my why should usage of encryption, inside Kmail, or any program for that matter, be complicated?

you have to separate what is (3) encryption, what is a (2) digital signature, what are the (1) ciphers in their process and output.

1. it is obvious that a cipher is not matematically simple, neither in his alghoritm nor in his product. no one is idiot here.

2. a procedure to validate the provenience and the integrity of a message. in a binding (juridical) or social (keyservers and gpg/pgp) manner. out of any consideration of the real, physical world, privacy of the digital means of authentication (but the case of legally binding assumption, such as statuted measures of security).

3. a method to validate the privacy of the content of a message, neither of the privacy of the message itself nor of the secutiry of the digital component of the process (as in 2).

You have to pass-throught a step by step procedure that expose to you all technologically means of what you are doing, consenting to secure in the real world and in your mind the use of these means. If you will to use encription outside of the considerations of these aspects, to me you are using encription unnecessarly, and generating unnecessary internet traffic, so it is the bare minimum that you have to pain a litter suffer.

that's all for me, post closed. A goodwill man could find in the net all informations he want on the points supra.

sorry for the bad english