GSoC 2017 - Final work submission

As the GSoC 2017 final evaluation period just ended, my final work product is finally submitted. This post is a summary of my final work product.

Mailman-pgp#

  • repository@gitlab
  • docs@rtd
  • Plugin for Mailman Core.
  • Enables creating a PGP mailing list, which has a list key, can receive and serve messages encrypted, can sign and receive signed messages from subscribers.
  • Creates the key email command, which is used for per-address user key management.
  • Subscription to a PGP enabled mailing list the subscribing address to send and confirm an address public key, which the moderator must verify.
  • Somewhat confirms the user has possession of the appropriate private key to the one sent on subscription.
  • Has per-list settings for encryption/signatures/what to do with non encrypted / non signed messages, etc..
  • Optionally exposes a REST API for list configuration.
  • Has local archivers which can store the messages encrypted by the list key.
  • Stores list and address keys in configurable key directories.
  • Requires (some not merged) MRs in Mailman Core:
  • Additional MR (not required):
  • Required branches are merged and maintained at J08nY/mailman/plugin.
  • To install, do pip install mailman-pgp, warning: it will pull in a development version of Mailman Core and PGPy.

django-pgpmailman#

mailman-rest-events#

  • repository@gitlab
  • A plugin for Mailman Core that turned out to be unnecessary for the working of django-pgpmailman, but implemented a similar feature as this MR.
  • This plugin sends the events (and some information about them) from Mailman Core to a list of configurable endpoints using JSON in HTTP POST requests.

Other contributions#

Overall#

I think I met almost all goals that the project idea required and my original proposal stated, with the noteworthy exception of remote archiving to HyperKitty which I just couldn’t find a way to integrate.