= Components 
** Status: Work in progress **

The software components we plan to change or consider as part of the contract:
* email clients (Kontact Mail and Thunderbird with Enigmail as example for others)
* GnuPG backend
* a service located at the email service provider
* central fallback server
* classic certificate ("key") server



== How should an improved email client work?
User A wants to send a signed/encrypted email to user B. A has only the email address of B. A's email client gets the OpenPGP (public) certificate from B's email service provider (step 1+2) which is used to encrypt the email to B.

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[[attachment:easygpg-send-email.pdf|PDF]]

== How should an improved GnuPG backend work?
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[[attachment:easygpg-backend.pdf|PDF]]