From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/84154 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Emacs Cloud Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 14:53:03 -0800 Message-ID: <87ha8hf7ow.fsf@building.gnus.org> References: <877g9fxwih.fsf@building.gnus.org> <87r47ni1mu.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <87k3deo8y0.fsf@building.gnus.org> <87mwiaqzjj.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <87txcimrsc.fsf@building.gnus.org> <87ha8impk9.fsf@building.gnus.org> <87eh3mqf4t.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <871tzmm6yz.fsf@building.gnus.org> <87vbwyks3h.fsf@building.gnus.org> <8761oxqvrp.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1391381652 16003 80.91.229.3 (2 Feb 2014 22:54:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 22:54:12 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M32406@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Feb 02 23:54:19 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WA5vf-0003xy-I2 for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 02 Feb 2014 23:54:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1WA5vb-0006IT-Ei; Sun, 02 Feb 2014 16:54:15 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1WA5va-0006IH-Ba for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 02 Feb 2014 16:54:14 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1WA5vZ-0006kB-Bj for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 02 Feb 2014 16:54:14 -0600 Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WA5vX-0004LS-WE for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 02 Feb 2014 23:54:12 +0100 Original-Received: from [204.14.154.233] (helo=building.gnus.org) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1WA5vK-0006wz-Ca for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 02 Feb 2014 23:53:58 +0100 In-Reply-To: <8761oxqvrp.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Sun, 02 Feb 2014 12:17:30 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-MailScanner-ID: 1WA5vK-0006wz-Ca MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1391986439.03292@maMa7Jh4pJmvX7mue0cS1w X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:84154 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov 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. >"? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/