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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Password protection
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:25:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m339srci5m.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vd5nx5wa.fsf@gmx.de>

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

> Hmm. Just a rough idea: what a about a new lisp object "password"? It
> can be created only via an (interactive) C-level function, and another
> C-level function returns the carried string. On lisp level, the value
> is available only as hash string of the password itself. By this,
> functions like `eq' or `string-equal' could still be applied.

It sounds nice, but I think introducing an entirely new object type just
for passwords will be a hard sell with the Emacs maintainers.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen




  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-30 16:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-28 14:17 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-28 14:43 ` Richard Riley
2010-09-29 14:01   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-28 14:46 ` Julien Danjou
2010-09-28 14:50   ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-29 14:04   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-28 14:47 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-29 14:07   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-29 16:56     ` Charles Philip Chan
2010-09-29 17:15     ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-29 19:27       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-29 19:51         ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-29 20:35           ` Michael Albinus
2010-09-29 20:58             ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-30  3:32               ` Michael Albinus
2010-09-30 15:46                 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-30 17:19                   ` Michael Albinus
2010-09-30 16:25                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2010-09-30 16:43                   ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-30 16:47                     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-30 17:07                       ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-30 17:17                         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-30 17:45                           ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-30 17:51                             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-30 19:11                               ` Michael Albinus
2010-09-30 17:13                       ` Michael Albinus
2010-09-30 17:16                     ` Michael Albinus
2010-09-29 21:38           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-25 22:18             ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-05 11:53               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-07 17:27                 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-28 15:02 ` David Engster
2010-09-29  2:28 ` Daniel Pittman
2010-09-29  4:39   ` Richard Riley
2010-09-29  5:58     ` Daniel Pittman
2010-09-29  6:42       ` Richard Riley
2010-09-29  8:54   ` Gijs Hillenius
2010-09-29  9:07     ` Richard Riley
2010-09-29 10:23       ` Gijs Hillenius
2010-09-29  9:51     ` Tassilo Horn

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