From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix random selection of keyserver Date: Mon, 31 May 2021 14:45:13 +0300 Message-ID: <83h7ij2kl2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20210530183629.599038-1-philipk@posteo.net> <83mtsc2gor.fsf@gnu.org> <87sg243szf.fsf@icterid> <875yyzgtvk.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="2314"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon May 31 13:45:48 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lngMe-0000PQ-1d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 31 May 2021 13:45:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60836 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lngMd-00059T-3n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 31 May 2021 07:45:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59652) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lngLv-0003lO-Hg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 May 2021 07:45:04 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41556) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lngLu-0001Vo-M1; Mon, 31 May 2021 07:45:02 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3589 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lngLr-0001oA-6y; Mon, 31 May 2021 07:45:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: <875yyzgtvk.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Mon, 31 May 2021 11:00:47 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:270166 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 31 May 2021 11:00:47 +0200 > > Philip Kaludercic writes: > > > Perhaps, the intent of this patch was just to fix the currently broken > > behaviour suggested by epa-keyserver's type. > > > > I am not sure if a :set function could be used to randomize the > > keyserver for every request. Then again, is might not even really be > > necessary to provide such a feature. > > I wonder whether it might make sense instead to allow `epa-keyserver' to > be a list, and if so, then choose a random server from that list. > That'd give users control over what servers to use when randomising. Yes, that's what I meant: make the :set function generate the list from which we then randomly select. Sorry for unclear wording.