From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Let us see how to encrypt with Emacs?
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2021 14:55:07 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83im1jd7ms.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YOgzunqpaoYHLdoA@protected.localdomain> (message from Jean Louis on Fri, 9 Jul 2021 14:32:10 +0300)
> Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2021 14:32:10 +0300
> From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-09 11:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-09 7:38 Let us see how to encrypt with Emacs? Jean Louis
2021-07-09 10:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-09 11:32 ` Jean Louis
2021-07-09 11:52 ` tomas
2021-07-09 12:35 ` Jean Louis
2021-07-09 12:43 ` tomas
2021-07-09 11:55 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-07-09 12:28 ` Jean Louis
2021-07-09 12:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-09 12:27 ` Jean Louis
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