From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: encrypt.el Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 21:41:12 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <4n7jpu4o7d.fsf@lifelogs.com> <4nis9baoz3.fsf@lifelogs.com> <4nfz4f94jw.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1097869880 488 80.91.229.6 (15 Oct 2004 19:51:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 19:51:20 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 15 21:51:03 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CIY6Q-0005fq-00 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 21:51:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CIYDa-0004RA-JF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:58:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CIYDV-0004R5-3U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:58:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CIYDU-0004Qt-Mx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:58:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CIYDU-0004Qq-JM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:58:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CIY5x-0000qQ-Nz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:50:33 -0400 Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CIY5w-0003D8-00 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 21:50:32 +0200 Original-Received: from c494102a.s-bi.bostream.se ([217.215.27.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 21:50:32 +0200 Original-Received: from jas by c494102a.s-bi.bostream.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 21:50:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c494102a.s-bi.bostream.se Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LCyp6yNg5PPURix5MC3jjOX9kuA= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:28452 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:28452 "Ted Zlatanov" writes: > encrypt.el should be general-purpose enough that it can be outside > Gnus itself. I would like it to be part of Emacs, not just Gnus, > because encryption is important to users and Emacs doesn't come with > much built-in for handling encryption. I'm attaching a copy, the same > (as of now) as the one in the Gnus CVS HEAD. Can anyone comment on > the likelihood of inclusion in Emacs? For the emacs-devel audience, it may be useful to highlight one potentially controversial aspect of it: It is a wrapper around ENCRYPTION code. As far as I recall, RMS said that encryption code is OK now, that's why tls.el and starttls.el eventually was added to Emacs. I support including it.