On 1/12/06, Dave Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ken Manheimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > the TODO item describes something that will provide > > encryption/decryption at the granularity of the entire file. i > > already had that (in the form of an addon elisp package, i think it's > > crypt++), > > Maybe you did, but most of us didn't. Crypt++ will _not_ handle file > encoding issues correctly (amongst other things). Regardless of naïve > attitudes about it, most of us don't live in an ASCII world. [Also > compare the extent of the changes to generalize jka-compr with > crypt++.el]
I did not mean to suggest that we don't need standard whole-file encryption, but the capability that allout intends to provide is different. If the implementation is flawed, I would like to fix it. > > but i am finding allout's easy articulation of encrypted > > _portions_ of a file, in the form of encrypted topics, to be as useful > > as i hoped - way way more useful for the kinds of things i need. > > Presumably it would be equally useful in Org mode, for instance. > However, _what's installed just doesn't work_ as far as I can tell. > If the example didn't get through, I'll send it again. Ah, I see the example now. I'll reply in that message. > (I wrote the whole-file support for sharing files of password lists &c > using public keys in a foolproof way that didn't require everyone use > Emacs. If I wanted multi-part data in the same file, I'd probably use > MIME, which provides encoding information as well as potentially > associating it with public keys via a recipients list. In fact, I > originally just used encrypted articles in Gnus. I don't want to > dictate how people work, but I don't want users to be screwed by not > being able to recover their non-ASCII text, for instance.) Thanks. > By the way, check out > <URL:http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/autocap.el>. Ah. ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
