From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/55730 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Simon Josefsson" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: netrc.el now supports encoded files Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 14:28:55 +0100 (CET) Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <2268.217.208.174.213.1073395735.squirrel@217.208.174.213> References: <4n3caut1yy.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1073395764 10322 80.91.224.253 (6 Jan 2004 13:29:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 13:29:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M4270@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jan 06 14:29:19 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AdrGp-0001OH-00 for ; Tue, 06 Jan 2004 14:29:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AdrGc-0006nO-00; Tue, 06 Jan 2004 07:29:06 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AdrGT-0006nG-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 06 Jan 2004 07:28:57 -0600 Original-Received: from yxa.extundo.com (178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net [217.13.230.178]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D42233A0026 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 07:28:55 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from yxa.extundo.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i06DStAU017059 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 14:28:55 +0100 Original-Received: (from apache@localhost) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.10/8.12.1/Submit) id i06DStVs017058; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 14:28:55 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: yxa.extundo.com: apache set sender to jas@extundo.com using -f Original-Received: from 217.208.174.213 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jas); by yxa.extundo.com with HTTP; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 14:28:55 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <4n3caut1yy.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu> Original-To: "Ding Mailing List" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.0 [CVS] X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.5.0 [CVS] X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:55730 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:55730 > I used the very timely password.el to add password support to > netrc.el, and it can now decode symmetric ciphers with OpenSSL. The > OpenSSL binary is required, so it would be nice if someone implemented > a built-in cipher. A helper netrc-encode function is also provided. IMHO, use GnuPG instead of OpenSSL. I'm trying to remove the last OpenSSL dependencies from Gnus (ssl.el and sha1-el.el are done, I'm working on starttls.el, smime.el is the next step). Perhaps supporting OpenSSL as well is OK, but I think the defaults should be to use GNU tools where available. I wrote an elisp AES implementation some time ago () but I'm not sure using it is a good idea, password based file encryption is more complicated than the block cipher primitive.