From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/72119 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Password protection Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:02:33 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285686192 24583 80.91.229.12 (28 Sep 2010 15:03:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:03:12 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M20492@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Sep 28 17:03:09 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0bi1-00022L-0j for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:03:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P0bhd-0003W3-BX; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:02:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P0bhb-0003Vi-0M for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:02:43 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P0bhZ-0003gS-AJ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:02:42 -0500 Original-Received: from m61s02.vlinux.de ([83.151.21.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P0bhY-00088l-00 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:02:40 +0200 Original-Received: from [134.76.4.238] (helo=imac.local) by m61s02.vlinux.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0bhX-0004Sr-S0 for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:02:39 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:17:57 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (darwin) Mail-Copies-To: never Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:72119 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > So here's my thought: If there was a C-level function that would slurp > in your ~/.authinfo.gpg data, and then let you use it, but without > actually ever letting a Lisp-level function see the passwords -- > wouldn't that be nice? As long as this is optional I don't see much of a problem with it, though I think that having one framework like gpg-agent is actually a good thing. I'm using gpg-agent for passphrases, certificates (gpgsm) and ssh-agent, and it's working really well. -David