From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: lisp/url/url-https.el Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 17:50:34 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87fzb8cfxq.fsf@lexx.delysid.org> <4nvfk2whna.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87vfk28bl0.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1082045247 31579 80.91.224.253 (15 Apr 2004 16:07:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 16:07:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 15 18:07:11 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BE9OP-0002Qm-00 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 18:07:09 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BE9OP-00069u-00 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 18:07:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BE9LH-0007bo-K0 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:03:55 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BE9Fr-0005jq-UV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 11:58:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BE98X-0002iW-K1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 11:51:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [217.13.230.178] (helo=yxa.extundo.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.30) id 1BE98W-0002fB-K5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 11:50:44 -0400 Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i3FFodfH003425 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Thu, 15 Apr 2004 17:50:39 +0200 Original-To: Stefan Monnier X-Hashcash: 0:040415:monnier@iro.umontreal.ca:d8d857d718399229 X-Hashcash: 0:040415:emacs-devel@gnu.org:fbe247854b0a0aec In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "15 Apr 2004 09:42:22 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:21703 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:21703 Stefan Monnier writes: >> There is crypt++, but when it was discussed in the context of Gnus, I >> think it was decided it was not really good enough, the programmatic >> elisp API insufficient, and that we could never get copyright papers >> for it anyway. I believe it was suggested to make a generic package >> for this. This same problem does indeed occur in many situations. I >> thought, but perhaps I have just been secretly wishing it, that Ted >> was working on something like that. > > Maybe I didn't express myself clearly enough: I was talking about writing > a generic package (like crypt++) such that Gnus does not need to know about > encryption at all (i.e. the package uses generic hooks so Gnus does not need > to call it explicitly. At most Gnus would just need a way to specify > a different file name than ~/.authinfo, which is probably already the case). That's exactly what I had in mind. Such a package would be useful, and looks rather simple to implement (if one can assume e.g. GnuPG).