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Erstellt: 20. 5. 2010, 18:39

CAFF? Is that like coffee?

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I had the CAFF mode twice in the feature plan and it's finally also in the code I thought I would write a bit what's that all about. But instead of writing this all here as it was my first intention I instead have written most of the stuff to a chapter keysigning in KGpg documentation. After a week of waiting the online docs are now also up to date so it's time to take a look.

And for those who want to know why it's called "CAFF" mode: there is a perl script caff in the package signing-party that does basically the same. But that script has some drawbacks, e.g. it wants to send all your mail with your local sendmail. While this might be handy with a one-person workstation this sucks when it comes to laptops (where you often don't have a proper local MDA set up) or even non-Un*x hosts (think of KDE on Windows). Since that script always annoyed me in one or the other way I couldn't let it go because it is just too useful. So now KGpg can do the same work hopefully for me and use my usual mail setup. Whoa! ;)

So everyone who wants to know how this key signing stuff is intended to work please have a look at the docs I've written and tell me if this is understandable. Improvements always welcome.

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