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[ABANDONED] Mail App with integrated OpenPGP encryption
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File Sharing in the iOS App #343

Open 4bitfocus opened 9 years ago

4bitfocus commented 9 years ago

Please add support for File Sharing to the iOS application. It would be useful when importing an existing key to be able to use iTunes for the file transfer.

felixhammerl commented 9 years ago

theoretically yes, but i'm not sure about this one, because: 1) to upload the key to your phone, you need itunes 2) itunes runs on your desktop 3) so you might just as well set up whiteout on your desktop and use the IMAP key sync...

but i see where this is coming from. i'll leave the ticket open to see if there are more people in favor.

4bitfocus commented 9 years ago

I thought about setting up the desktop version, but I also thought the "new user" experience on an iPhone would be useful feedback for you. If there's a better place for feedback let me know.

For a new user looking to import a key the experience is a little weird. Here are my initial thoughts:

It's great that I can use an existing key; I really like having that option. I'm hoping that experience can be improved, and I think enabling File Sharing support would help accomplish this.

I know that setting up the desktop is an option for getting private keys synced everywhere, but the key sync makes me nervous. I just don't want my private key out on the internet in any form. Plus, I'm worried that people will stop where I did and never finish the setup. I don't think that pausing the mobile experience to setup the desktop version in order to complete the mobile setup is the workflow you're going for.

majnu-campact commented 9 years ago

+1 I had a hard time getting my private key into Whiteout on iOS. Import file does not work and opening the fotos instead is very confusing for the average user. Honestly, I don't know what a comfortable solution would be. But maybe an instruction would help.

felixhammerl commented 9 years ago

well, a comfy solution would be to either generate a new key, or set it up on the desktop and sync the key. On May 20, 2015 11:41, "majnu-campact" notifications@github.com wrote:

+1 I had a hard time getting my private key into Whiteout on iOS. Import file does not work and opening the fotos instead is very confusing for the average user. Honestly, I don't know what a comfortable solution would be. But maybe an instruction would help.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/whiteout-io/mail-html5/issues/343#issuecomment-103825957 .

majnu-campact commented 9 years ago

Setting it up on the desktop and syncing it would be fine, but there wasn't a clue about that possibility on the screen. A link to instructions would have saved me quite some time fiddling around with copying the key manually ;)

I did come up with an idea for those (like me) who prefer not to send their private key over the wire: Apps can receice files via iTunes (Dateifreigabe). If Whiteout could offer that option then the users could just drag their keyfile into iTunes. That would be comfy as well.

4bitfocus commented 9 years ago

I don't want a new key. I have to use a new one for now, temporarily, just to use your app. I'm currently unable to import my key even on the desktop. I have a separate ticket issue opened for that.

majnu-campact commented 9 years ago

What I did is I exported my key to a file, renamed the extension to .txt and loaded it via iTunes into an App that can display files, like Filer Lite. I then opened it from there and copied the content into the clipboard and then into Whiteout.

4bitfocus commented 9 years ago

How many UIDs do you have in your key, @majnu-campact ?

majnu-campact commented 9 years ago

@kevin559er: I have one primary key and one sub key. Is that what you meant?