From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Emacs Cloud
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 14:53:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ha8hf7ow.fsf@building.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8761oxqvrp.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Sun, 02 Feb 2014 12:17:30 -0500")
Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> GnuPG 1.x can be automated so it doesn't ask for the passphrase (it can
> pass through Emacs). With 2.x that's intentionally disabled and you
> have to use the daemon, which makes it impossible to supply the
> passphrase externally. See the docs for
> `epa-file-cache-passphrase-for-symmetric-encryption' which Ueno-san
> updated recently.
Geez. That's really unfortunate. Having Gnus Cloud ask for the
password every single time makes this a no go.
Is there no other way to do symmetric encryption from Emacs?
> I wrote a large patch to provide ciphers and encryption in Emacs
> natively, hoping to avoid the GnuPG issues, but Stefan rejected it
> because he wants to move in the FFI direction, so he wants to avoid
> tight C bindings to GnuTLS or libnettle/libhogweed. I plan to work on
> this after the freeze so assume there will be something in the Emacs
> trunk in 2014 that will do native encryption without prompting you for a
> passphrase.
Perhaps we can convince Stefan to reconsider. >"?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-02 22:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-01 4:55 Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-01 10:11 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-02-01 12:10 ` Rasmus
2014-02-01 16:49 ` Steinar Bang
2014-02-01 20:23 ` Rasmus
2014-02-01 21:37 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-02-01 21:50 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-02-02 5:03 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-02-02 8:23 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-02-04 12:55 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-02-02 22:17 ` Steinar Bang
2014-02-01 20:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-01 21:43 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-02-01 21:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-01 22:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-02 5:04 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-02-02 5:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-02 5:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-02 17:17 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-02-02 22:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2014-02-02 23:20 ` Julien Danjou
2014-02-02 23:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-02 23:39 ` Julien Danjou
2014-02-02 23:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-03 8:08 ` David Engster
2014-02-03 13:14 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-02-03 14:58 ` David Engster
2014-02-04 12:53 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-02-04 13:25 ` David Engster
2014-02-06 0:49 ` Emacs Cloud (coverage and killed groups) Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-07 2:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-07 8:56 ` Julien Danjou
2014-02-07 10:40 ` Peter Münster
2014-02-08 2:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-07 13:24 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-02-03 14:53 ` Emacs Cloud Ted Zlatanov
2014-02-03 15:04 ` David Engster
2014-02-03 14:45 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-02-02 17:20 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-02-02 22:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-02 5:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-02-05 7:46 ` Steinar Bang
2014-02-05 23:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-05 23:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-07 13:28 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-02-08 4:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-10 8:43 ` Daiki Ueno
2014-02-10 13:32 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-02-11 12:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-11 13:25 ` Daiki Ueno
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