On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 17:59:23 -0400 Roger Dingledine arma@mit.edu wrote:
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 05:45:36PM -0400, Sukhbir Singh wrote:
I am starting to work on a small GUI tool for file verification because I find guiding users through the verification process on Windows/Mac through the command line painful.
Just a thought: have you considered doing this through a Firefox extension instead?
It does seem like a Firefox extension is a better alternative. The "here's an executable you just fetched from the Internet, please run it" model is likely bad news, and also isn't the right habit to be teaching users.
If you go the browser extension route, there is a now defunct Firefox add-on called FireGPG that implemented GnuPG in the web browser. This add-on was discontinued in 2010 and it's primary focus was encrypting and decrypting gmail messages. However, the software was open source and the code is still available. If you decide to implement this project as a browser extension, you might want to see if there are any usable parts you can salvage from that rubble (there might not be). http://getfiregpg.org/s/home