From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Password protection
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:43:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tyl76v2k.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m339srci5m.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
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.
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?
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-30 16:43 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 [this message]
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
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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