Re: PGG default values (was: Re: PGG with multiple GnuPG keys)

["Satyaki Das" <satyakid@stanford.edu>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Looking at my ~/.emacs I (only) have these two:
> 
>  '(pgg-encrypt-for-me t)
>  '(pgg-passphrase-cache-expiry 12345678)
> 
> The defaults are nil and 16 respectively.
> 
> I think the first one should default to t.  Sending encrypted messages
> and later discovering you can't read them yourself would be a bad
> experience.  People that understands enough to worry about a default
> setting of t will certainly be able to search for the variable in the
> manual and disable it.  Opinions?

Yes it should default to t. I actually didn't know about the
option. But I already have some option in ~/.gnupg/options that
does the equivalent.

> For the second one, I think 16 seconds is a rather pointless cache
> (maybe only to fix the extra invocation of gpg for GCC).  But I don't
> know what a good default would be.  An hour?  A workday?  Opinions?

Personally I have it set to 1000000. But the paranoid among us
will prefer a smaller value. I would say something of the order of
10 minutes shouldn't be too bad.

Satyaki