From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
To: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Encrypt replies to encrypted messages by default.
Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 16:37:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vd27oul2.fsf@red-bean.com> (raw)
I'd like to apply the patch below, which causes replies to encrypted
messages to also be encrypted by default, at least in Gnus.
Reasoning:
As a failure mode, it's much better to accidentally encrypt than to
accidentally *not* encrypt -- especially with email, where the reply may
quote parts of the original mail (which was sent encrypted, thus raising
the likelihood that quoted excerpts would be of a sensitive nature).
It actually happened to me recently: I accidentally sent a reply in
plaintext, quoting parts of a rather sensitive mail, because I'd
unconsciously expected Emacs to automatically encrypt the reply. That
incident started me looking for some way to control this behavior. I
was glad to find `gnus-message-replyencrypt' (I thought I was going to
have to implement it), but surprised it was not set to `t' by default.
Note the same logic does not apply to `gnus-message-replysign', so I
haven't changed that variable's default in this patch.
Does anyone think this is a bad idea? If we agree it's good, is it
enough to commit it to Emacs, or should I also send it to a separate
Gnus list?
-Karl
=== modified file 'lisp/gnus/gnus-msg.el'
--- lisp/gnus/gnus-msg.el 2010-12-02 22:21:31 +0000
+++ lisp/gnus/gnus-msg.el 2011-01-02 21:27:04 +0000
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@
:type 'boolean)
(defcustom gnus-message-replyencrypt
- nil
+ t
"Automatically encrypt replies to encrypted messages.
See also the `mml-default-encrypt-method' variable."
:group 'gnus-message
=== modified file 'lisp/gnus/ChangeLog'
--- lisp/gnus/ChangeLog 2010-12-27 09:46:02 +0000
+++ lisp/gnus/ChangeLog 2011-01-02 21:27:42 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2011-01-02 Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
+
+ * gnus-msg.el (gnus-message-replyencrypt): Default to `t'.
+
2010-12-27 Daiki Ueno <ueno@unixuser.org>
* mml2015.el (mml2015-epg-sign, mml2015-epg-encrypt): Take care the
next reply other threads:[~2011-01-02 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-02 21:37 Karl Fogel [this message]
2011-01-05 15:26 ` [PATCH] Encrypt replies to encrypted messages by default Stefan Monnier
2011-01-05 17:18 ` Karl Fogel
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