On 10/2/05, Sascha Wilde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 12:28:17PM -0400, Ken Manheimer wrote: > > > I emerged it and got access to gpp and the info file. it > > looks nice - clean - but appears to have the same drawback, for my > > purposes, as mailcrypt. it will decrypt messages encoded with a > > symmetric key, but provides no api for encrypting with a symmetric > > key. that lack is a show-stopper for my purposes. > > So you would consider switching to pgg, if it would provide an > interface to symmetric encryption?
yes. it would probably be a relief - allout goes through different contortions to use crypt++ than it does for mailcrypt. i expect my code could simplify, overall, if it used a single, fairly clean encryption interface. > > it may well be that pgg is preferable, somehow, to mailcrypt - they > > both offer similar functionality, including key caching, as well as > > the lack of an interface for encrypting with a symmetric key. but the > > changeover won't gain me anything i can yet see - i'll still need to > > also use crypt++ for the symmetric key encoding. > > The reason I asked is, that pgg is, just like allout, part of GNU > Emacs 22 -- so IMO it would be desirable to have the howl > functionality of allout "out of the box" with GNU emacs. that would be a compelling reason. i could allocate some time to incorporate pgg into allout, ditching the dependencies on crypt++ and mailcrypt, if pgg provided for encrypting with symmetric keys. i don't think i have the time to develop that extension of pgg however. do you think someone else might do that? that would be cool... ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
