From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: opaque data types Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:11:21 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87bo7iqad2.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <51AE71DB.8060005@yandex.ru> <87zjv41uer.fsf@lifelogs.com> <878v2oxwhr.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87r4gfa8nw.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87fvwvwgg5.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87li6maa9r.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87sj0uqdhm.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <87a9n2oxu6@ch.ristopher.com> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1370614302 20086 80.91.229.3 (7 Jun 2013 14:11:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 14:11:42 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 07 16:11:42 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UkxOH-0003dz-41 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:11:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50307 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UkxOG-0004E7-K3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:11:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39662) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UkxOD-0004E1-J8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:11:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UkxOB-00005z-3C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:11:37 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:34838) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UkxOA-00005U-Rz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:11:35 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UkxO8-0003Va-AW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:11:32 +0200 Original-Received: from pool-72-93-26-80.bstnma.east.verizon.net ([72.93.26.80]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:11:32 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by pool-72-93-26-80.bstnma.east.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:11:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-72-93-26-80.bstnma.east.verizon.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:RRXtbf9eNpvuUdDctrjU14npksQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:160215 Archived-At: On Fri, 7 Jun 2013 14:27:12 +0100 (BST) Christopher Schmidt wrote: CS> Ted Zlatanov writes: >> I'd really like an opaque "password" type that doesn't print unless >> retrieved with a special function, and is stored encrypted in memory. CS> Why do you want that? To store passwords and other sensitive data in a way so they are not trivial to extract. We've had some previous emacs-devel discussions about this. Ted