On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 at 11:41, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:


> I guess I was asking why is this done in Lisp, not in C.  The
> decrypted stuff is human-readable text, is it not?  Then why would a
> Lisp program want to see the encrypted byte array?
>

No, it's not. This is called from the backend protocol implementation of
IMAP, for example. When Gnus wants to load a mailbox, it calls the IMAP
code (Elisp) which then calls into GSSAPI to perform the decryption of the
underlying packets.

Regards,
Elias