I'm sure Derek and the other guys on PGPlib will make it easier to integrate into applications. Am I just blowing smoke, Mr. Atkins?
No, you are not blowing smoke. That is the hope of the PGPlib project; PGPlib will make it easy (almost trivial) to integrate PGP security into almost any application.
In my free time, I have been playing around with add ons for Microsoft Exchange. I've got an OLE 2.0 encryption object that embeds nicely into an Exchange message. I haven't tied it in to PGP yet, because I have been waiting for the release of PGPlib. However, that will allow at least some seamless integration.
Neat. I don't know enough about OLE to comment, but can we discuss this offline? Is there an equivalent of OLE (AppleEvents, perhaps?) for the Mac? It would be really cool if we could come up with a plug-in standard that gets put into mailers such that we could later add a PGP drop-in that performs the encryption using those standard interfaces. -derek