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*Does use WKD *The implementation is not up-to-date since it doesn't contain the advanced method *There is an issue for the advanced method on Github: https://github.com/mailvelope/mailvelope/issues/774 *As part of this work a branch was created to implement the advanced method: https://github.com/c8k/mailvelope |
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*Integrated WKD since version 3.18.0 / 4.0.0: https://www.claws-mail.org/news.php *How to get a key via WKD: **at the right side of an opened email is a toolbar with a button that contains a key icon (see Screenshot [[attachment:wkd_claws_mail.png]] **a click on it opens a window where the key of the belonging email address can be fetched (via key server or WKD) |
IncreaseWKDUsage2021 bachelor thesis
At Intevation a bachelor thesis will be written by Christoph Klassen starting 2021-10 to see how usage of WKD can be furthered. Bernhard Reiter does the mentoring, see gnupg-devel@ for discussion and for contacting Christoph or Bernhard.
Goal
WKD is easy to implement and brings the advantage of good usability. Because of that it is desirable to spread it and increase its usage. The question is how to do that and which is the best way. More concrete: Which measures fit best to spread the WKD standard. This measures are taken from the area of software engineering and include documentation, testing and implementation. They will be applied to different products that are Free Software.
Difficulty
It is necessary to evaluate the success of different measures to tell which one was the most effective one. It is not possible to track users while using their products, because one main promise of the products is to protect users privacy. So there have to be other ways to measure the success. One idea is to log the WKD calls on a server, which has much traffic. Please contact Bernhard or Christoph when you have these possibilities or know someone who could do this service. It would be very helpful!
This idea would help to evaluate the success of all measures overall. Additionally, it would be of great value, if there would be a way to differentiate between the measures. Maybe the statistics could show a correlation between measures and increase of WKD calls.
State of products and progress
Here it will be described if products use WKD, if it's in discussion to use WKD or not and how far the WKD standard is implemented.
Mailvelope
- Does use WKD
- The implementation is not up-to-date since it doesn't contain the advanced method
- There is an issue for the advanced method on Github: https://github.com/mailvelope/mailvelope/issues/774
- As part of this work a branch was created to implement the advanced method: https://github.com/c8k/mailvelope
Claws Mail
- Integrated WKD since version 3.18.0 / 4.0.0: https://www.claws-mail.org/news.php
- How to get a key via WKD:
- at the right side of an opened email is a toolbar with a button that contains a key icon (see Screenshot attachment:wkd_claws_mail.png
- a click on it opens a window where the key of the belonging email address can be fetched (via key server or WKD)
Scope: additional notes, hints or other infos about WKD, which do not fit the other pages.