From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: pgg symmetric encryption patch Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 00:15:06 -0400 Message-ID: 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> <20051005161905.GA6208@kenny.sha-bang.local> <2cd46e7f0510051216o5a9d5aadycd74ac089ccfca5b@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1128917836 21718 80.91.229.2 (10 Oct 2005 04:17:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 04:17:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: schwab@suse.de, ken.manheimer@gmail.com, ueno@unixuser.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 10 06:17:06 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EOp5s-0007Wc-Ek for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 06:16:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EOp5r-0007EC-Pz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 00:16:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EOp48-0006db-3O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 00:15:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EOp47-0006dJ-B2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 00:15:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EOp47-0006dB-51 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 00:15:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EOp47-00040B-41 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 00:15:07 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1EOp46-0001AC-Ap; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 00:15:06 -0400 Original-To: Ken Manheimer In-reply-to: <2cd46e7f0510051216o5a9d5aadycd74ac089ccfca5b@mail.gmail.com> (message from Ken Manheimer on Wed, 5 Oct 2005 15:16:21 -0400) 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:43763 Archived-At: i would have to change pgg's key caching stuff to enable me, for instance, to query for the presence of a key, and also change the encryption/decryption function signatures to take explictly passed-in keys. it will not be trivial, and i don't want to launch into the work if there's no chance the pgg changes will be accepted. I see no reason to reject them, assuming you do a good job writing them, provided you preserve upward-compatibility for the existing PGG interface functions.