From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Let us see how to encrypt with Emacs? Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2021 14:55:07 +0300 Message-ID: <83im1jd7ms.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83mtqvdb4s.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="38327"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 09 13:56:10 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m1p74-0009oz-MV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2021 13:56:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55500 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m1p73-00048N-NF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2021 07:56:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45918) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m1p6K-00048C-Cd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2021 07:55:25 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:38788) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m1p6K-0001NS-5h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2021 07:55:24 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3915 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m1p6J-0006EC-EF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2021 07:55:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Jean Louis on Fri, 9 Jul 2021 14:32:10 +0300) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:131635 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2021 14:32:10 +0300 > From: Jean Louis > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > > > ‘STRING’ > > > A string as input will be used directly. It may be modified by the > > > function (unlike most other Emacs Lisp functions) to reduce the > > > chance of exposing sensitive data after the function does its work. > > > > > > I am trying to use list with STRING as following and that does not work: > > > > > > (gnutls-symmetric-encrypt "CHACHA20-64" (string-pad "MyPassword987" 32) (make-string 16 (random 100)) '(STRING "Text to encrypt")) > > > > What do you mean by "does not work"? > > I get invalid object argument: STRING so I do not understand how to use STRING there. You are misinterpreting what the manual shows. STRING in upper-case is a meta-syntactic variable, it means in actual usage you need to _replace_ it with a Lisp string. So just use "Text to encrypt", without the rest.