From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/54760 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jorge Godoy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: PGG default values Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 13:12:00 -0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <13408.1068408992@chicory.stanford.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1068477238 19413 80.91.224.253 (10 Nov 2003 15:13:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 15:13:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Satyaki Das" Original-X-From: ding-owner+M3301@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Nov 10 16:13:55 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AJDjm-0000bp-00 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 16:13:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AJDjZ-00014j-00; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:13:41 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AJDjS-00014d-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:13:34 -0600 Original-Received: from panda.sul.com.br (panda.sul.com.br [200.219.150.4]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AB693A0074 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:13:33 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from wintermute.g2ctech (200-103-130-085.ctame7044.dsl.brasiltelecom.net.br [200.103.130.85]) by panda.sul.com.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C26B326CB; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 13:12:28 -0200 (EDT) Original-Received: by wintermute.g2ctech (Postfix, from userid 500) id E3F0984132; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 13:12:00 -0200 (BRST) Original-To: ding X-URL: Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Disclaimer: Unless explicitly stated, opinions on this message are strictly mine In-Reply-To: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Sun, 09 Nov 2003 23:00:11 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54760 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54760 Simon Josefsson writes: > I think the first one should default to t. Sending encrypted messages > and later discovering you can't read them yourself would be a bad > experience. People that understands enough to worry about a default > setting of t will certainly be able to search for the variable in the > manual and disable it. Opinions? I'd rather stick with that option in the ~/.gnupg/options file only. There you can say if you want the message / document / whatever to be encrypted for you or not. This is a better solution since it is global for all programs that use GPG. > For the second one, I think 16 seconds is a rather pointless cache > (maybe only to fix the extra invocation of gpg for GCC). But I > don't know what a good default would be. An hour? A workday? > Opinions? As you can infer from my settings, I lean towards > infinity, but perhaps a more conservative setting should be used. I use 5 minutes. Usually I'm sending more than one encrypted message, but I don't want the passphrase to be cached for too long. I used to use one minute, but it bored me. > I suspect a good feature request at this point would be to add a > yes-or-no-p on whether to use a cached passphrase, but until someone > else mention I'll pretend I haven't thought about it. :-) If such a > query is added, having an infinite passphrase cache might make > sense. I don't think so. This somewhat violates the idea of knowing the passphrase to use the encryption. From 3 to 5 minutes is what I think ideal for a cache (and I think that this is a lot of time...). See you, -- Godoy.