From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/51362 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Mailcrypt vs PGG Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 00:56:33 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1050188229 10443 80.91.224.249 (12 Apr 2003 22:57:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 22:57:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Sun Apr 13 00:57:07 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 194Tvn-0002iI-00 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 00:57:07 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 194Tvb-0003U9-00; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:56:55 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:58:01 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [64.157.176.121]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA17591 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:57:48 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 47795 invoked by alias); 12 Apr 2003 22:56:38 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 47790 invoked from network); 12 Apr 2003 22:56:38 -0000 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net (HELO yxa.extundo.com) (217.13.230.178) by gnus.org with SMTP; 12 Apr 2003 22:56:38 -0000 Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h3CMuXXK027585 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK) for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 00:56:34 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Payment: hashcash 1.2 0:030412:ding@gnus.org:6b07e73d78ca2e11 X-Hashcash: 0:030412:ding@gnus.org:6b07e73d78ca2e11 In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 12 Apr 2003 23:16:02 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090018 (Oort Gnus v0.18) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:51362 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:51362 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Xavier Maillard writes: > >> No flame here :) I just want to know what are the advantages and the >> drawbacks of each solution. > > I have no idea, but since nobody else answered (is everybody reading > for their finals or something equally slackerish?) I think that PGG > is newer and more spiffy. I can add that Mailcrypt probably has more support for quirks in historic, pre-GPG, PGP implementations, even though PGG is supposed to work with PGP them too. (And that while I _am_ supposed to read for my finals, the last week or so I have been sipping cafe au lait and catching colds at cafe de flore.) Jesper Harder added key snarfing support to PGG in Oort recently (maybe upstream too?), so it should have most main features now. Oh. Mailcrypt has some anonymous remailer stuff in it. PGG doesn't, but you can do most of that kind of stuff from within Gnus, I believe. The moral of the story is to use PGG and report whatever problems there are, so they can be either fixed or the manual enhanced to say why you would want to install Mailcrypt at all.