From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Manheimer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: pgg symmetric encryption patch Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:30:54 -0400 Message-ID: <2cd46e7f0510200730q10d46755j19c6b6a740b415f1@mail.gmail.com> References: <2cd46e7f0510031250u66ea1349yb437d539ce4027ef@mail.gmail.com> <2cd46e7f0510071106k3d4d3e6agc36f16a37d8b6bc6@mail.gmail.com> <20051007214952.GA30235@kenny.sha-bang.local> <20051008103627.GA1218@kenny.sha-bang.local> <2cd46e7f0510081131h14e2bbeaga7f1a33ebd6347c8@mail.gmail.com> <2cd46e7f0510101415t76825ea7u9749fe23da54ce@mail.gmail.com> <2cd46e7f0510121647x3c51fb65pc883ed61f4e864ab@mail.gmail.com> <2cd46e7f0510200708x4640d1c2t50743cf439e52dd4@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129819614 31521 80.91.229.2 (20 Oct 2005 14:46:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:46:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "sascha schwab \(symmetric encryption patches\)" , "Daiki Ueno \(pgg author\)" , "Richard M. 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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:44426 Archived-At: On 10/20/05, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Hi. Thanks for reminding me. I thought we were waiting for copyright > assignment papers? Have the FSF received papers for all authors? The i'll send my pgg copyright assignment papers right now. (they came while i was away for a week.) my allout assignment has been on file for a while, happily. dunno about status of sascha's assignment. > best way to proceed is to wait for them to arrive, and then send me a > complete patch against the then-current CVS that I can install. I can > take care of installing it into Gnus CVS as well. > > I'm all for relocating pgg. However, I suggest lisp/pgg/ instead. > The lisp/ directory is pretty large as it is. lisp/pgg/ sounds like a good idea to me, too. ken ken.manheimer@gmail.com > Ken Manheimer writes: > > > i just posted a new version of my allout patches which depend on the > > pgg revisions of sascha and mine, so i thought i'd post a query in > > this thread on the status of these patches - the new allout encryption > > features won't work without these pgg refinements in place. i also > > should mention rms' initiative to relocate pgg to the lisp/ directory, > > since pgg constitutes a facility in its own regard - i'm all for that. > > > > i'm not attaching the pgg changes to this message, but can easily do > > so if needed. > > > > ken > > ken.manheimer@gmail.com > > > > On 10/12/05, Ken Manheimer wrote: > >> as threatened, here is a complete patch against the current gnu.org > >> lisp/gnus repository. i've migrated all the allout encryption > >> functionality to pgg and exercised this stuff pretty substantially, > >> and am very comfortable with the way it works. > >> > >> there are a bunch of fixes, as well as extensions so the passphrases > >> can be managed by the calling functions, as well as refinement of the > >> passphrase caching mechanism (so multiple timeouts don't pileup for a > >> single passphrase - the last one replaces the prior ones). lotsa > >> goodies. the patch includes sascha wilde's symmetric-encryption > >> additions - basically, the whole deal. > >> > >> what it does not include is revision of the pgg-pgp.el and pgg-pgp5.el > >> modules, to track changes to the pgg api. i started in on that, only > >> to discover that they were already broken by the addition of a 'sign' > >> parameter to some of the encryption functions. there's no way to > >> repair that short of implementing the feature for the other packages, > >> and i'm not in a position to do that. (plus, i'm not sure i am > >> comfortable with the way it was done for pgg-gpg.) > >> > >> so it looks like pgg-pgp.el and pgg-pgp5.el are disfunctional already, > >> without my changes. i'm hoping that's not going to prevent the > >> introduction of my changes. > >> > >> i'm going to be heading offline for five days, starting tomorrow, so > >> it'll be a bit before i can respond to questions. i hope the patch > >> i'm sending (which includes detaild ChangeLog entries) will be > >> helpful to anyone that wishes to navigate them. > >> > >> and once again, i'm not sure the attachment will be delivered this > >> time. (it wasn't on a recent try, but then was on a subsequent > >> message. this is the first awkward gmail bug i've hit...) > >> > >> ken > >> ken.manheimer@gmail.com > >> > >> On 10/10/05, Ken Manheimer wrote: > >> > for those of you following the developments at home (:-), here's an > >> > incremental patch on top of what i sent out a few days ago. i fixed= a > >> > small stack of bugs in pgg-gpg.el that settles my complaint about > >> > prompting with the secret key identity, and also filled in a small > >> > oversight in the changes i sent out a few days ago. > >> > > >> > while this could be the last pgg patch, i'm still developing, hence > >> > the incremental. i plan to send out a full patch when i've finished > >> > transitioning allout to pgg, at which point i expect my mucking with > >> > pgg to be settled. so, repository maintainers may want to wait for > >> > that, while i'm hoping those actively involved (eg, sascha) will > >> > scrutinize and, ideally, exercise these patches. > >> > > >> > we'll see if the attached patch makes it through this time. (i > >> > haven't re-attached it, which i think was the problem last time.) i= f > >> > not, look forward to a followup... >