From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: pgg symmetric encryption patch Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 08:46:07 -0400 Message-ID: <87hdbxh2o0.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: <2cd46e7f0509301024r71462d81v81ebd8e858f06305@mail.gmail.com> <20050930210649.GA22126@kenny.sha-bang.local> <2cd46e7f0509301452l72c262d6l89efd6fb772f61b2@mail.gmail.com> <2cd46e7f0510010928v8244052k2a98375e38fdd2ed@mail.gmail.com> <20051002104823.GA31722@kenny.sha-bang.local> <20051003192503.GA15503@kenny.sha-bang.local> <2cd46e7f0510031250u66ea1349yb437d539ce4027ef@mail.gmail.com> <20051004105330.GA5288@kenny.sha-bang.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1128430514 11772 80.91.229.2 (4 Oct 2005 12:55:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 12:55:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: schwab@suse.de, ueno@unixuser.org, "Richard M. Stallman" , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 04 14:55:04 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EMmIr-0007UT-S6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2005 14:53:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EMmDb-00066e-0B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2005 08:48:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EMmDH-00062E-3J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2005 08:48:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EMmD1-0005tR-RK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2005 08:47:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EMmD1-0005rp-E0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2005 08:47:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.97] (helo=tomts40-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EMmBN-0003PO-Sb; Tue, 04 Oct 2005 08:46:10 -0400 Original-Received: from alfajor ([70.49.82.228]) by tomts40-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20051004124608.MYNX1799.tomts40-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Tue, 4 Oct 2005 08:46:08 -0400 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6D4AFD780A; Tue, 4 Oct 2005 08:46:07 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Ken Manheimer In-Reply-To: <20051004105330.GA5288@kenny.sha-bang.local> (Sascha Wilde's message of "Tue, 4 Oct 2005 12:53:30 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." 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:43537 Archived-At: > One problem, though: pgg supports, besides gnupg, pgp and pgp5 -- I > don't have any version of pgp on my box, and I'm not willing to buy a > proprietary product to write these patches. So, to make the symmetric > encryption feature work with these backends, I would need help by > people, who can tell me about the needed switches for pgp and test the > patches with different versions of pgp... I wouldn't worry about that: for non-gpg users it currently doesn't work either, so it's not like you're making life worse for them. If they want symmetric crypto to work for their product, they'll have to provide the patches themselves. Stefan