From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: ding@gnus.org, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: encrypt.el in No Gnus 0.7 (was: New Emacs facilities from Gnus)
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:52:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2r6jbktfp.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v9k5p6jr7t.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (Reiner Steib's message of "Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:49:10 +0100")
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:49:10 +0100 Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> wrote:
RS> I'll provide a list of new files [in No Gnus 0.7] with some
RS> comments. If you need to know more about these files, I'd suggest
RS> to make a _separate_ reply and cc the author or maintainer.
...
RS> * encrypt.el:
RS> ;;; encrypt.el --- file encryption routines
RS> ;; Author: Teodor Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
(I haven't brought this up sooner due to lack of time, but this seems
like a good chance to discuss it)
This could go into mainline Emacs if people are interested. For Gnus it
lets a user encrypt the .netrc file for example (I modified netrc.el
accordingly). It can encrypt/decrypt any file (ciphers are matched with
the file path) and doesn't interfere with the regular Emacs file
facilities since it provides a separate API. Software has to explicitly
use the encrypt.el API, e.g.
(let (encryption-model (encrypt-find-model file))
(if encryption-model
(encrypt-insert-file-contents file encryption-model)
(insert-file-contents file)))
It uses password.el to manage passphrase caching.
I posted instructions on usage to the ding list, but they haven't gone
into the manual (partly because I didn't know if people would complain
about encrypt.el, or if it would eventually move to mainline Emacs).
FWIW, I think it's really nice to encrypt the .netrc file when you are
on a shared machine. Then you can put IMAP passwords, etc. in the file
without the obvious plaintext risks; one passphrase decrypts the whole
thing and you don't enter any more passwords until the passphrase
expires.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-31 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-28 9:20 Gnus in Emacs is updated to No Gnus 0.7 Miles Bader
2007-10-28 9:46 ` Leo
2007-10-28 9:58 ` Miles Bader
2007-10-28 14:25 ` Reiner Steib
2007-10-29 7:50 ` Glenn Morris
2007-10-29 19:26 ` Reiner Steib
2007-10-29 2:56 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-10-29 8:30 ` Michael Albinus
2007-10-30 4:16 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-10-29 7:49 ` New Emacs facilities from Gnus (was: Gnus in Emacs is updated to No Gnus 0.7) Reiner Steib
2007-10-31 18:52 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2007-10-31 20:36 ` encrypt.el in No Gnus 0.7 Reiner Steib
2007-10-31 21:05 ` Ted Zlatanov
2007-11-01 1:30 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-11-01 15:04 ` Ted Zlatanov
2007-11-01 15:24 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-11-01 23:08 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-02 14:12 ` Ted Zlatanov
2007-11-02 21:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-11-04 19:56 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-05 1:49 ` Ted Zlatanov
2007-11-05 8:47 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-05 15:13 ` Ted Zlatanov
2007-11-06 2:16 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-06 17:58 ` Ted Zlatanov
2007-11-07 7:56 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-07 14:34 ` Ted Zlatanov
2007-11-08 0:58 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-11-08 1:16 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-11-08 14:48 ` Ted Zlatanov
2007-11-08 23:11 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-11-09 0:19 ` Leo
2007-11-09 2:39 ` Ted Zlatanov
2007-11-09 6:39 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-11-10 3:00 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-09 10:40 ` Sascha Wilde
2007-11-07 7:56 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-07 14:47 ` Ted Zlatanov
2007-11-06 21:11 ` Reiner Steib
2007-11-07 15:01 ` Ted Zlatanov
2007-11-07 16:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-11-07 17:34 ` Ted Zlatanov
2007-11-07 16:47 ` Reiner Steib
2007-11-07 17:25 ` Ted Zlatanov
2007-11-02 14:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
2007-11-03 2:49 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-11-05 1:27 ` Ted Zlatanov
2007-11-05 1:37 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-11-01 7:32 ` encrypt.el in No Gnus 0.7 (was: New Emacs facilities from Gnus) Richard Stallman
2007-11-01 8:15 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-11-01 14:47 ` New Emacs facilities from Gnus Simon Josefsson
2007-11-01 16:16 ` Daiki Ueno
2007-11-01 20:09 ` Reiner Steib
2007-11-02 2:06 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-04 19:56 ` New Emacs facilities from Gnus (was: Gnus in Emacs is updated to No Gnus 0.7) Richard Stallman
2007-11-14 23:41 ` New Emacs facilities from Gnus Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2007-11-04 19:56 ` New Emacs facilities from Gnus (was: Gnus in Emacs is updated to No Gnus 0.7) Richard Stallman
2007-11-14 23:42 ` New Emacs facilities from Gnus Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2007-11-15 15:31 ` Simon Josefsson
2007-11-17 12:28 ` ecomplete.el (was: New Emacs facilities from Gnus) Reiner Steib
2007-11-17 13:23 ` ecomplete.el Tassilo Horn
2007-11-18 2:18 ` ecomplete.el Bastien
2007-11-04 19:56 ` New Emacs facilities from Gnus (was: Gnus in Emacs is updated to No Gnus 0.7) Richard Stallman
2007-11-04 20:36 ` New Emacs facilities from Gnus Manoj Srivastava
2007-11-04 21:12 ` Reiner Steib
2007-11-04 19:56 ` New Emacs facilities from Gnus (was: Gnus in Emacs is updated to No Gnus 0.7) Richard Stallman
2007-11-05 22:23 ` New Emacs facilities from Gnus Arne Jørgensen
2007-11-06 8:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-11-06 8:37 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-06 22:35 ` Arne Jørgensen
2007-11-06 11:33 ` New Emacs facilities from Gnus (was: Gnus in Emacs is updated to No Gnus 0.7) CHENG Gao
2007-11-06 18:45 ` New Emacs facilities from Gnus Reiner Steib
2007-11-07 3:35 ` CHENG Gao
2007-11-07 7:56 ` New Emacs facilities from Gnus (was: Gnus in Emacs is updated to No Gnus 0.7) Richard Stallman
2007-11-11 23:53 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-13 1:39 ` New Emacs facilities from Gnus Ted Zlatanov
2007-11-13 20:03 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-11 23:54 ` New Emacs facilities from Gnus (was: Gnus in Emacs is updated to No Gnus 0.7) Richard Stallman
2007-10-29 19:24 ` Gnus in Emacs is updated to No Gnus 0.7 Reiner Steib
2007-10-29 23:11 ` Miles Bader
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