GnuPG code in Mozilla: GPL issues?

[Werner Koch]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Adam Lock wrote:

> Also, what are the chances that core GPG functionality will become a runtime
> library? If that happened, then presumably the LGPL (which most libraries use)

There will be no gpg library for security reasons.  The fork/exec overhead 
is not that high compared to the cryptograhic operations.  And a
wrapper libray may decided to run gpg in a loop which is already done
for key managenent tasks.  Basically this is a kind of CORBA service
but not implemented with an ORB but with a simpler method because the
security implications using CORBA and a security enabling software are
not well understood yet.

  Werner