From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daiki Ueno Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ASCII encryption Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:17:10 +0900 Message-ID: References: <4F8AE450.9010104@gmail.com> <4F8C07DE.6040109@pobox.com> <4F8C0FC5.8080603@gmail.com> <81wr5fu5eh.fsf@gmail.com> <4F8C4967.8090306@gmail.com> <81ipgzei5m.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1334627088 26218 80.91.229.3 (17 Apr 2012 01:44:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 01:44:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Richard H Lee , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jambunathan K Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 17 03:44:44 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SJxTH-0005IN-2Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 03:44:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57934 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SJxTG-0007Lb-HP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:44:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53218) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SJxT0-0007Gb-Lo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:44:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SJxSk-0004DM-DA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:44:26 -0400 Original-Received: from www10194u.sakura.ne.jp ([182.48.42.232]:33811) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SJxSk-00049t-39 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:44:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: <81ipgzei5m.fsf@gmail.com> (Jambunathan K.'s message of "Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:19:25 +0530") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 182.48.42.232 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:149708 Archived-At: Jambunathan K 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