From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/72300 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Password protection Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:43:31 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87tyl76v2k.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87sk0t3oxm.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87fwwszd1i.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87wrq4wcpc.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87tyl8xp7u.fsf@gmx.de> <87eiccw9ku.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87vd5nx5wa.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285865036 28905 80.91.229.12 (30 Sep 2010 16:43:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:43:56 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M20673@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Sep 30 18:43:55 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P1MEd-0006tV-3W for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:43:55 +0200 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 1P1MEZ-0004Cu-40; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:43:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P1MEX-0004Cf-5F for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:43:49 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P1MEQ-0003Gi-Og for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:43:48 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P1MEQ-0001B9-00 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:43:42 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P1MEO-0006o6-UF for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:43:40 +0200 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:43:40 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:43:40 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 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" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:BrgiBqAOTXWsbs42Nm0L5bnMn8M= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:72300 Archived-At: On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:25:57 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: LMI> Michael Albinus 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