From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Password protection
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:16:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mxqzw3ro.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tyl76v2k.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:43:31 -0500")
Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:25:57 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
>
> LMI> Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:
>>> Hmm. Just a rough idea: what a about a new lisp object "password"? It
>>> can be created only via an (interactive) C-level function, and another
>>> C-level function returns the carried string. On lisp level, the value
>>> is available only as hash string of the password itself. By this,
>>> functions like `eq' or `string-equal' could still be applied.
>
> LMI> It sounds nice, but I think introducing an entirely new object type just
> LMI> for passwords will be a hard sell with the Emacs maintainers.
Yes, it is a high hurdle to jump over.
> If it doesn't break existing code, doesn't slow Emacs down, and provides
> needed functionality we can't get in any other way, they'll probably OK
> it. Do you or Michael want to make a proposal or should I?
I'll be happy to support you. My English might not be fluid enough for
the discussion (often, I have the impression Stefan simply does not
understand what I'm saying. Because of me).
> Ted
Best regards, Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-30 17:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-28 14:17 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-28 14:43 ` Richard Riley
2010-09-29 14:01 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-28 14:46 ` Julien Danjou
2010-09-28 14:50 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-29 14:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-28 14:47 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-29 14:07 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-29 16:56 ` Charles Philip Chan
2010-09-29 17:15 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-29 19:27 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-29 19:51 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-29 20:35 ` Michael Albinus
2010-09-29 20:58 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-30 3:32 ` Michael Albinus
2010-09-30 15:46 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-30 17:19 ` Michael Albinus
2010-09-30 16:25 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-30 16:43 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-30 16:47 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-30 17:07 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-30 17:17 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-30 17:45 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-30 17:51 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-30 19:11 ` Michael Albinus
2010-09-30 17:13 ` Michael Albinus
2010-09-30 17:16 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2010-09-29 21:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-25 22:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-05 11:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-07 17:27 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-28 15:02 ` David Engster
2010-09-29 2:28 ` Daniel Pittman
2010-09-29 4:39 ` Richard Riley
2010-09-29 5:58 ` Daniel Pittman
2010-09-29 6:42 ` Richard Riley
2010-09-29 8:54 ` Gijs Hillenius
2010-09-29 9:07 ` Richard Riley
2010-09-29 10:23 ` Gijs Hillenius
2010-09-29 9:51 ` Tassilo Horn
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