From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Autocrypt header field Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 05:01:30 -0500 Message-ID: References: <874lmbubud.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1519207255 11474 195.159.176.226 (21 Feb 2018 10:00:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 10:00:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Robert Pluim Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 21 11:00:51 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eoRCl-0002iA-01 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Feb 2018 11:00:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59832 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eoREn-0008JX-7g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Feb 2018 05:02:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48229) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eoRDf-0007p1-Ah for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Feb 2018 05:01:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eoRDV-0007Rb-P4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Feb 2018 05:01:47 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:43156) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eoRDP-0007LY-LV; Wed, 21 Feb 2018 05:01:31 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eoRDO-0006We-NO; Wed, 21 Feb 2018 05:01:30 -0500 In-reply-to: <874lmbubud.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Robert Pluim on Tue, 20 Feb 2018 12:42:02 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:222957 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > What level of support were you thinking of? The Autocrypt > recommendations include a whole bunch of PGP key generation and setup > messaging that I'm not convinced are necessary. We should consult an expert such as Werner Koch about that. Snarfing the key from > the header and adding it to the user's keyring should be easy enough. [1] I suppose that is the job to be done; you've raised the question of how to do that right. > [1] Or should this go to a separate Autocrypt keyring? I never heard of Autocrypt before. What would be the reason for doing that? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.