From: Jon Lasser <jlasser@rwd.goucher.edu>
For those people who have Netscape / an SSL-enabled web-browser, wouldn't it be useful to have secure web pages that did the following: (2) A pgp-sending web page (type in key id into field, send message to address given, encrypted) This isn't a bad idea for the same reason that (1) above is a much better idea.
How hard would this be to implement? Would it be worth waiting until the PGP 3.0 API is released?
I have been slogging away with my own SSL browser trying to make it crash less frequently (it actually crashes more often than Netscape). Before I started on the latest round of changes I had managed to PGP enable the browser (using my own implementation of PGP) with two web linked functions: a) In the mailto: Link a PGPKEY="ABCDE" field contains the PGP public key of the recipient the program then encrypts the mail before sending it. b) In forms using mailto a similar function acheives the same. I have almost certainly broken the PGP implementation through all the work I have been doing on the code recently although I think I should be able to sort this relatively soon. In other words: It has been done (ish) see ftp://193.119.26.70/mktnet/pub/horse.zip (It also covers 128bit SSL)