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Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> I used the very timely password.el to add password support to
> netrc.el, and it can now decode symmetric ciphers with OpenSSL.  The
> OpenSSL binary is required, so it would be nice if someone implemented
> a built-in cipher.  A helper netrc-encode function is also provided.

I'd like to suggest a different term than =BBencode=AB.  In Gnus encode
usually doesn't imply encryption, but stuff like base64 or QP.