Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de> writes:

> I'm thinking about augmenting Tramp with a multi-connection mode.
> What does this have to do with Gnus, you ask?  Well, opening a
> connection to a remote host often means that the user has to enter a
> password (or five).  I would like to make it convenient for the user
> to open more connections, so I'd like to cache the password that the
> user typed.
>
> Is there something in Gnus or PGG or mailcrypt that could help me with
> this?  I guess I need some key (a string I guess) to store each
> password under.  And I need a way of retrieving the password later.

There is code in pgg.el for this, but perhaps depending on it in tramp
isn't the best idea.  It could be separated.  How about a password.el?

> And some security of one kind of another would be nice, too.

Left as an exercise to the reader.