From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Wherein I argue for the inclusion of libnettle in Emacs 24.5 Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 14:36:24 -0800 Message-ID: <87txceqzdj.fsf@building.gnus.org> References: <87ha8f3jt1.fsf@building.gnus.org> <87wqhbdnwc.fsf@lifelogs.com> <52F114E7.9000805@cs.ucla.edu> <87iosuenjq.fsf@lifelogs.com> <52F139D3.3030401@cs.ucla.edu> <87a9e6eiyu.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1391553469 12640 80.91.229.3 (4 Feb 2014 22:37:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 22:37:49 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 04 23:37:54 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WAocr-0002fS-O3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 23:37:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55948 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WAocr-00017E-5l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 17:37:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58276) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WAocj-00014p-GX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 17:37:50 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WAoce-0008Ia-7e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 17:37:45 -0500 Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]:53653) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WAoce-0008IV-1b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 17:37:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [204.14.154.233] (helo=building.gnus.org) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1WAocP-0003ta-3y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 23:37:25 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87a9e6eiyu.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Tue, 04 Feb 2014 15:11:37 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-MailScanner-ID: 1WAocP-0003ta-3y MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1392158245.56756@DCr7wQWCOA7zmOB323DuJQ X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.224.195 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:169398 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > I followed up to Lars specifically so I could explain that I thought > (after a few months of letting things rest) that loose coupling of > *encryption* features specifically was a bad idea. Yeah, I think that's an important point. Encryption is, I think, especially fiddly to get right. That is, there are plenty of projects that have gotten it wrong over the years. Using the C interfaces in the intended way would help a bit. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/