From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/58215 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Ted Zlatanov" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: authinfo encryption through netrc.el works now Date: 6 Aug 2004 17:57:28 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <4nn018orp3.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <4nwu0u8zht.fsf@lifelogs.com> <4noem1tmmp.fsf@lifelogs.com> <4nk6wlzbc2.fsf@koz.bwh.harvard.edu> <4n4qnl8mnw.fsf@lifelogs.com> <4noelsxi20.fsf@lifelogs.com> <4nacxaaloy.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <4npt65ckbe.fsf@lifelogs.com> <4npt6417os.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1091830809 28175 80.91.224.253 (6 Aug 2004 22:20:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 22:20:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6756@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Aug 07 00:19:59 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 1BtD4B-0001KO-00 for ; Sat, 07 Aug 2004 00:19:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BtD31-0004rs-00; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 17:18:47 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BtD2s-0004rk-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 17:18:38 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BtD2r-0007cZ-JP for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 17:18:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.bwh.harvard.edu (sysblade0.bwh.harvard.edu [134.174.9.44]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 003BD3A0042 for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2004 17:18:36 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 29682 invoked from network); 6 Aug 2004 22:10:50 -0000 Envelope-Sender: tzz@lifelogs.com Envelope-Recipients: jas@extundo.com, ding@gnus.org, Original-Received: from asimov.bwh.harvard.edu (HELO asimov) ([134.174.9.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.bwh.harvard.edu (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 6 Aug 2004 22:10:49 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: "Simon Josefsson" , ding@gnus.org Original-To: "Simon Josefsson" X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" In-Reply-To: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Fri, 06 Aug 2004 20:18:31 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58215 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58215 On Fri, 06 Aug 2004, jas@extundo.com wrote: > The default password cache life length is 16 seconds, which IMHO > doesn't make much sense but it has been discussed before. Try: > > (setq password-cache-expiry 47114711) > (setq pgg-passphrase-cache-expiry 47114711) Shouldn't nil be acceptable as 'never'? > Perhaps the password cache could include logic differentiate among > passwords, so that users may choice that IMAP/SMTP passwords are kept > around in memory forever, but OpenPGP passwords are remembered for 5 > minutes, or something. I've thought about adding a "Use cached > password? (y or n)" query as well, which is another thing that I'd > want for OpenPGP passwords but not for IMAP/SMTP passwords. It should be easy to base that on the key name and build a more complex password-cache-expiry structure with customize. I wouldn't use it personally, I like simplicity :) Ted