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Subject: Re: Storing sensitive data indefinitely in variables or buffers:
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> Date: Wed, 31 May 2023 11:39:31 -0500
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, jschmidt4gnu@vodafonemail.de
> From: Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>
> 
> I think Emacs needs a new library to store Lisp data securely.

Can't we use the GnuTLS cryptography functions, like
gnutls-symmetric-encrypt, for that?