From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Cc: ueno@unixuser.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, ding@gnus.org, miles@gnu.org
Subject: Re: encrypt.el in No Gnus 0.7
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 03:47:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Ioxbs-0003Nt-4z@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2sl3lzcjz.fsf@lifelogs.com> (message from Ted Zlatanov on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 19:49:36 -0600)
RS> I just looked at encrypt.el. It appears to support just GnuPG
RS> and "Built-in simple XOR". And built-in simple XOR is just an
RS> example, not for real use.
The idea is to allow users to supply their own ciphers, and to support
other external utilities as users find it necessary.
It is a sensible feature, but is it worth including in Emacs? I am
not convinced this is sufficiently useful to be worth including.
Is there any sign that users use it?
1) users don't have to install GnuPG to use simple obfuscation ciphers
(yes, this is sometimes useful).
If you mean Rot13, aren't there other interfaces for that? It seems
to me that we don't want to use the same command for Rot13 as we use
for GPG, because it is inconvenient to have to select one or the other
each time. We want two different commands.
3) other external utilities can be supported.
Are there any that are useful to support?
4) ciphers, being Emacs Lisp code, can do almost anything: SSH to a
remote machine, use BBDB, use IMAP, use version control...
I really don't like the idea of labeling such things as "encryption".
All in all, encrypt.el still looks like unnecessary complexity which
doesn't pull its weight.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-05 8:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 98+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-28 9:20 Gnus in Emacs is updated to No Gnus 0.7 Miles Bader
2007-10-28 9:46 ` Leo
2007-10-28 9:58 ` Miles Bader
2007-10-28 14:25 ` Reiner Steib
2007-10-28 14:49 ` Leo
2007-10-28 15:07 ` Miles Bader
2007-10-28 15:57 ` Reiner Steib
2007-10-29 7:50 ` Glenn Morris
2007-10-29 19:26 ` Reiner Steib
2007-10-29 2:56 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-10-29 8:30 ` Michael Albinus
2007-10-30 4:16 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-10-29 7:49 ` New Emacs facilities from Gnus (was: Gnus in Emacs is updated to No Gnus 0.7) Reiner Steib
2007-10-31 18:52 ` encrypt.el in No Gnus 0.7 (was: New Emacs facilities from Gnus) Ted Zlatanov
2007-10-31 20:36 ` encrypt.el in No Gnus 0.7 Reiner Steib
2007-10-31 21:05 ` Ted Zlatanov
2007-11-01 1:30 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-11-01 15:04 ` Ted Zlatanov
2007-11-01 15:24 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-11-01 23:08 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-02 14:12 ` Ted Zlatanov
2007-11-02 21:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-11-04 19:56 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-05 1:49 ` Ted Zlatanov
2007-11-05 8:47 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2007-11-05 15:13 ` Ted Zlatanov
2007-11-06 2:16 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-06 17:58 ` Ted Zlatanov
2007-11-07 7:56 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-07 14:34 ` Ted Zlatanov
2007-11-08 0:58 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-11-08 1:16 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-11-08 14:48 ` Ted Zlatanov
2007-11-08 23:11 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-11-09 0:19 ` Leo
2007-11-09 2:39 ` Ted Zlatanov
2007-11-09 6:39 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-11-10 3:00 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-09 10:40 ` Sascha Wilde
2007-11-07 7:56 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-07 14:47 ` Ted Zlatanov
2007-11-06 21:11 ` Reiner Steib
2007-11-07 15:01 ` Ted Zlatanov
2007-11-07 16:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-11-07 17:34 ` Ted Zlatanov
2007-11-07 16:47 ` Reiner Steib
2007-11-07 17:25 ` Ted Zlatanov
2007-11-02 14:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
2007-11-03 2:49 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-11-05 1:27 ` Ted Zlatanov
2007-11-05 1:37 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-11-01 7:32 ` encrypt.el in No Gnus 0.7 (was: New Emacs facilities from Gnus) Richard Stallman
2007-11-01 8:15 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-11-01 14:47 ` New Emacs facilities from Gnus Simon Josefsson
2007-11-01 16:16 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-11-01 20:09 ` Reiner Steib
2007-11-02 2:06 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-04 19:56 ` New Emacs facilities from Gnus (was: Gnus in Emacs is updated to No Gnus 0.7) Richard Stallman
2007-11-14 23:41 ` New Emacs facilities from Gnus Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2007-11-04 19:56 ` New Emacs facilities from Gnus (was: Gnus in Emacs is updated to No Gnus 0.7) Richard Stallman
2007-11-14 23:42 ` New Emacs facilities from Gnus Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2007-11-15 13:07 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-15 19:54 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2007-11-16 18:32 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-17 12:29 ` ecomplete.el (was: New Emacs facilities from Gnus) Reiner Steib
2007-11-17 23:31 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <87lk8zr0e4.fsf@mocca.josefsson.org>
2007-11-17 12:28 ` Reiner Steib
2007-11-17 13:23 ` ecomplete.el Tassilo Horn
2007-11-18 2:18 ` ecomplete.el Bastien
2007-11-04 19:56 ` New Emacs facilities from Gnus (was: Gnus in Emacs is updated to No Gnus 0.7) Richard Stallman
2007-11-04 20:36 ` New Emacs facilities from Gnus Manoj Srivastava
2007-11-05 8:47 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-22 20:50 ` Reiner Steib
2007-11-23 4:35 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-04 21:12 ` Reiner Steib
2007-11-04 19:56 ` New Emacs facilities from Gnus (was: Gnus in Emacs is updated to No Gnus 0.7) Richard Stallman
2007-11-05 22:23 ` New Emacs facilities from Gnus Arne Jørgensen
2007-11-06 8:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-11-06 8:37 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-06 22:35 ` Arne Jørgensen
2007-11-07 7:56 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-07 16:58 ` Reiner Steib
2007-11-07 17:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-11-07 18:02 ` Reiner Steib
2007-11-07 18:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-11-09 10:45 ` Sascha Wilde
2007-11-09 12:14 ` Reiner Steib
2007-11-22 20:30 ` Reiner Steib
2007-11-06 11:33 ` New Emacs facilities from Gnus (was: Gnus in Emacs is updated to No Gnus 0.7) CHENG Gao
2007-11-06 18:45 ` New Emacs facilities from Gnus Reiner Steib
2007-11-07 3:35 ` CHENG Gao
2007-11-07 7:56 ` New Emacs facilities from Gnus (was: Gnus in Emacs is updated to No Gnus 0.7) Richard Stallman
2007-11-11 23:53 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-13 1:39 ` New Emacs facilities from Gnus Ted Zlatanov
2007-11-13 20:03 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-11 23:54 ` New Emacs facilities from Gnus (was: Gnus in Emacs is updated to No Gnus 0.7) Richard Stallman
2007-10-29 19:24 ` Gnus in Emacs is updated to No Gnus 0.7 Reiner Steib
2007-10-29 23:11 ` Miles Bader
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