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From: Daiki Ueno <ueno@unixuser.org>
To: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard H Lee <ricardohenrylee@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ASCII encryption
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:17:10 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m31unnupgp.fsf-ueno@unixuser.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81ipgzei5m.fsf@gmail.com> (Jambunathan K.'s message of "Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:19:25 +0530")

Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:

>>> epa-armor is like the biblical forbidden fruit with hints of both
>>> pleasure and pain.  The ultimate end it achieves is to leave mere
>>> mortals in a state of perpetual confusion on private matters.
>>
>> So I that (setq epa-armor t) in my emacs file is not a good idea?
>
> That's what the last line of the docstring says.  It is confusing and
> also scary.

> | You should bind this variable with `let', but do not set it globally.

I think it is normal as coding-system-for-write, etc.  What's the problem?

epa-encrypt-file could surely be improved for ASCII armor though.  One
idea is to query user with "Save File: " prompt and if the answer ends
with ".asc", encrypt in ASCII armor instead of binary.

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno



      reply	other threads:[~2012-04-17  1:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-15 15:08 ASCII encryption Richard H Lee
2012-04-16 11:51 ` Bernardo
2012-04-16 12:25   ` Richard H Lee
2012-04-16 14:18     ` Jambunathan K
2012-04-16 16:31       ` Richard H Lee
2012-04-16 16:49         ` Jambunathan K
2012-04-17  1:17           ` Daiki Ueno [this message]

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