From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: pgg-encrypt is a pain in the neck
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 13:24:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1H0isT-0007ZM-NI@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ec5e0f1b-45c5-4ed5-ae1c-766fa33e3ee0@well-done.deisui.org> (message from Daiki Ueno on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 09:05:55 +0900)
I started with the following text in my *mail* buffer:
====start====
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15
From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: peterb
cc: rms
Subject: Testing
Reply-to: rms@gnu.org
--text follows this line--
this is a test.
====end====
and I did M-x pgg-encrypt.
It prompted for the recipients with no default.
(mailcrypt-encrypt gets defaults from the To and CC fields.)
So I entered `peterb, rms' by hand, and it encrypted the whole buffer
including the header. It left nothing in the buffer except for
the encrypted text. I verified by running gpg manually
that the encrypted text contained the mail buffer headers.
(mailcrypt-encrypt would have encrypted only the message body.)
To test pgg-decrypt, I encrypted that message with mailcrypt-encrypt,
which gave me the headers above plus a GPG message in the body.
Then I used pgg-decrypt. It decrypted the body ok, but discarded
the headers entirely.
This is not an adequate replacement for mailcrypt, not as it currently
works. We need to fix it now.
One way to fix pgg-encrypt would be to give it heuristics like the
ones mailcrypt-encrypt uses. Another would be to declare pgg-encrypt
to be a "low level" interface, reliable for programs with no DWIM, and
define a different command for users to encrypt their messages.
What do you think should be done?
As for pgg-decrypt, it has to preserve everything in the buffer
aside from the encrypted text which it decrypts.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-30 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 122+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-13 18:41 Syncing Gnus and Emacs repositories Reiner Steib
2007-06-13 19:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-13 21:47 ` Reiner Steib
2007-06-13 22:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-13 22:41 ` Glenn Morris
2007-06-13 23:22 ` Chong Yidong
2007-06-14 6:31 ` Emacs 23 development policy (was: Syncing Gnus and Emacs repositories) Reiner Steib
2007-06-14 7:25 ` David Reitter
2007-06-14 13:42 ` Adrian Robert
2007-06-14 19:56 ` Emacs 23 development policy Stefan Monnier
2007-06-14 16:20 ` Syncing Gnus and Emacs repositories Richard Stallman
2007-06-14 16:27 ` Chong Yidong
2007-06-15 0:57 ` Kenichi Handa
2007-06-15 2:03 ` Miles Bader
2007-06-15 3:14 ` Kenichi Handa
2007-06-15 2:35 ` Nick Roberts
2007-06-15 19:22 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-15 21:48 ` Nick Roberts
2007-06-16 18:50 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-16 19:23 ` Chong Yidong
2007-06-16 19:28 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-17 8:54 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-17 19:47 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-17 8:54 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-18 1:36 ` Kenichi Handa
2007-06-18 21:30 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-19 5:01 ` Kenichi Handa
2007-06-19 5:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-19 22:26 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-20 13:18 ` Kenichi Handa
2007-06-20 17:36 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-15 22:12 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-16 10:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-16 12:09 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-16 13:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-16 13:13 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-16 13:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-16 14:05 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-16 16:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-16 17:38 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-16 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-16 13:55 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2007-06-16 14:16 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-17 23:07 ` Kenichi Handa
2007-06-18 3:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-18 5:18 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-18 6:01 ` Nick Roberts
2007-06-18 19:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-18 21:12 ` Nick Roberts
2007-06-19 22:25 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-18 19:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-18 21:30 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-18 6:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-18 7:24 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-18 8:34 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-18 8:50 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-18 19:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-19 0:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-19 5:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-19 5:37 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-19 6:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-19 17:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-19 5:21 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-19 2:19 ` Kenichi Handa
2007-06-19 5:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-23 8:13 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2007-06-16 18:50 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-16 14:22 ` Proposal for a 22.2/trunk development model (was: Syncing Gnus and Emacs repositories) Dan Nicolaescu
2007-06-16 14:37 ` Proposal for a 22.2/trunk development model David Kastrup
2007-06-16 16:01 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-06-16 16:41 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-16 17:05 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-07-01 20:40 ` Proposal for a 22.2/trunk development model (was: Syncing Gnus and Emacs repositories) Richard Stallman
2007-06-15 19:21 ` Syncing Gnus and Emacs repositories Richard Stallman
2007-06-14 16:48 ` Jay Belanger
2007-06-17 13:47 ` Reiner Steib
2007-07-09 2:22 ` Miles Bader
2007-07-09 17:21 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-10 10:33 ` Miles Bader
2007-07-10 12:19 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-07-10 15:51 ` Leo
2007-07-10 20:05 ` Miles Bader
2006-12-16 2:58 ` [bug] PGG shows ?? when prompt for passphrase Leo
2006-12-17 1:30 ` Daiki Ueno
2006-12-17 2:18 ` Leo
2006-12-17 3:28 ` Daiki Ueno
2006-12-17 4:18 ` Leo
2006-12-17 4:28 ` Daiki Ueno
2006-12-17 5:27 ` Leo
2006-12-18 1:12 ` Richard Stallman
2006-12-18 1:34 ` Daiki Ueno
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2006-12-19 23:55 ` Daiki Ueno
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2006-12-30 18:24 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2006-12-30 19:41 ` pgg-encrypt is a pain in the neck Sascha Wilde
2006-12-31 1:02 ` Daiki Ueno
2006-12-31 12:27 ` Sascha Wilde
2006-12-31 14:07 ` Reiner Steib
2006-12-31 14:38 ` Daiki Ueno
2006-12-31 22:13 ` Richard Stallman
2006-12-31 1:47 ` Richard Stallman
2006-12-31 12:54 ` Sascha Wilde
2006-12-31 14:13 ` Daiki Ueno
2006-12-31 22:13 ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-02 0:28 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-01-02 16:37 ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-02 19:53 ` Reiner Steib
2006-12-31 22:13 ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-02 18:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-12-31 1:46 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <E1H0Juj-0005YY-RU@fencepost.gnu.org>
2007-07-10 22:47 ` Syncing Gnus and Emacs repositories Daiki Ueno
2007-07-10 22:54 ` Miles Bader
2007-07-11 0:07 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-07-11 21:03 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-10 21:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-07-11 2:25 ` Miles Bader
2007-07-11 21:03 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-11 3:05 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-11 3:43 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-07-11 9:38 ` Sascha Wilde
2007-07-11 10:22 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-07-11 21:04 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-14 8:38 ` Miles Bader
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