From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/55754 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: netrc.el now supports encoded files Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 18:00:32 -0500 Organization: =?koi8-r?q?=F4=C5=CF=C4=CF=D2=20=FA=CC=C1=D4=C1=CE=CF=D7?= @ Cienfuegos Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <4nwu84y967.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu> References: <4n3caut1yy.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nptdx99g3.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1073430118 18982 80.91.224.253 (6 Jan 2004 23:01:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 23:01:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M4294@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Jan 07 00:01:55 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 1Ae0Cx-000518-00 for ; Wed, 07 Jan 2004 00:01:55 +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 1Ae0Cs-0001pB-00; Tue, 06 Jan 2004 17:01:50 -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 1Ae0Cn-0001p6-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 06 Jan 2004 17:01:45 -0600 Original-Received: from clifford.bwh.harvard.edu (clifford.bwh.harvard.edu [134.174.9.41]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E1343A0026 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 17:01:45 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from collins.bwh.harvard.edu (collins [134.174.9.80]) by clifford.bwh.harvard.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.11.0) with ESMTP id i06N0c726661; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 18:00:38 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from collins.bwh.harvard.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by collins.bwh.harvard.edu (8.12.9+Sun/8.11.0) with ESMTP id i06N0YuB021284; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 18:00:34 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from tzz@localhost) by collins.bwh.harvard.edu (8.12.9+Sun/8.12.9/Submit) id i06N0Xr6021281; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 18:00:33 -0500 (EST) Original-To: Chris Green 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" Mail-Followup-To: Chris Green , ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Chris Green's message of "Tue, 06 Jan 2004 16:57:24 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (usg-unix-v) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:55754 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:55754 On Tue, 06 Jan 2004, cmg@dok.org wrote: > Ted Zlatanov writes: > >> >> Yes, I can add it too if you need it. What would be really nice is >> a built-in ELisp cipher, for Windows users for example. A simple >> XOR or ROT-13 based cipher would not be hard - does anyone want >> those or should I (or someone else) implement a more complex one? > > base64-encode-{region,string} is what mozilla uses by default if you > don't use the passphrase stuff. > > That's a plus for those times when you can open up > .mozilla/user/*/\d+.s and actually get your passwords back out of > silly webforms :> Would it be good to provide security that's very easily broken? Simon's rijndael.el seems much better - but I'll implement something that's easily reversed if you or someone else actually want it. Ted