Re: encrypt.el in No Gnus 0.7

[Sascha Wilde <wilde@sha-bang.de>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote:

> I'd rather get actual votes at this point than debate semantics.  So, if
> anyone wants to vote for or against encrypt.el, please do

Then: I vote against it's inclusion.

Reasons:
- there is no clear indication that it provides useful features to
  a significant group of Emacs users
- the group of people wanting to play around with cryptographic
  algorithms is very special and probably small
- experimenting with cryptographic infrastructure (starting from
  algorithms over pass phrase management to IPC and memory management in
  cryptographic tool changes) by untrained people leads to less security
  and productive use of the results of such experiments should by no
  means be encouraged.

sascha
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