Re: pgp 6.5.8 and gnus

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

David S Goldberg <david.goldberg6@verizon.net> writes:

> I haven't used pgp in years now that my company standardized on
> s/mime.  I have to deal with a customer who uses pgp.  So I built pgp
> 6.5.8 on a Sun box and would like to use gnus with it.  I assume I'm
> supposed to use mml-secure-message-encrypt-pgp to send him an
> encrypted message.  I looked at the pgg documentation and it seems
> that setting pgg-default-scheme to pgp5 is necessary.  But when I do
> that, I get an error that pgg-pgp5-encrypt-region is being called with
> a wrong number of arguments.  It looks like something is sticking a t
> at the end of it.  Am I doing something wrong?  Is there a bug?  Is
> there a better way to do this?

You could try GnuPG.  Or the patch below.  Do you know whether PGP
6.5.8 support encryption with signatures?  If so, how do you request
it on the command line?  As comparison, GnuPG has --encrypt --sign.

--- pgg-pgp5.el	20 May 2004 23:57:59 +0200	7.2
+++ pgg-pgp5.el	27 Jul 2004 01:05:08 +0200	
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ;;; pgg-pgp5.el --- PGP 5.* support for PGG.
 
-;; Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+;; Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 ;; Author: Daiki Ueno <ueno@unixuser.org>
 ;; Created: 1999/11/02
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@
 		 (buffer-substring (match-end 0)(progn (end-of-line)(point)))))
 	 2)))))
 
-(defun pgg-pgp5-encrypt-region (start end recipients)
+(defun pgg-pgp5-encrypt-region (start end recipients &optional sign)
   "Encrypt the current region between START and END."
   (let* ((pgg-pgp5-user-id (or pgg-pgp5-user-id pgg-default-user-id))
 	 (args