Subject: [sup-talk] Validating GPG keys in parallel and in background

From: [email-masked] (Michael Stapelberg)
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:19:14 +0200

Hi,

it seems like sup is blocking during the validation of GPG signed/encrypted
mails. While for encryption it makes some sense to block, for signed mails
it would be better to just display the message and add the information about
the signature status later. The same approach could be used for encrypted
messages: Display "decrypting..." and update it when done.

This is especially important for big mailing lists (like debian-devel) which
contain many signed mails.

Best regards,
Michael

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From: [email-masked] (William Morgan)
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:24:09 -0700

Reformatted excerpts from Michael Stapelberg's message of 2009-07-10:
> it seems like sup is blocking during the validation of GPG
> signed/encrypted mails. While for encryption it makes some sense to
> block, for signed mails it would be better to just display the message
> and add the information about the signature status later. The same
> approach could be used for encrypted messages: Display "decrypting..."
> and update it when done.

I agree. This would be great.
-- 
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>