From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Encryption code is ok Date: 05 May 2004 00:28:27 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083710335 19470 80.91.224.253 (4 May 2004 22:38:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 22:38:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed May 05 00:38:44 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 1BL8Ym-0005i9-00 for ; Wed, 05 May 2004 00:38:44 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BL8Ym-0003at-00 for ; Wed, 05 May 2004 00:38:44 +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 1BL8Qn-0002NM-BL for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 04 May 2004 18:30:29 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BL8PZ-0002DV-HH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2004 18:29:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BL8Oy-00022c-Mc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2004 18:29:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BL8Ox-00022F-TV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2004 18:28:35 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1BL8Oq-0003fp-U6; Tue, 04 May 2004 18:28:29 -0400 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 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:22765 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22765 Richard Stallman writes: > After further discussion with our lawyer I've concluded that it really > is ok to have encryption code in Emacs. So there is no need to > remove that. That's a relief. Throwing out anything that could potentially made to interface to encryption would really prove painful. Ok, not that the efficiency of Emacs Lisp would make this feasible, but just for the record: does your question encompass just code interfacing to cryptographic applications, or even cryptographic code itself written in Emacs Lisp? The question is purely academic, so don't exert any time for research if the answer is not clear, anyway. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum