Security key bindings

Security key bindings

[Jesper Harder]

Currently we have a lot of security key bindings:

,----
| C-c RET C s	mml-secure-encrypt-smime
| C-c RET C o	mml-secure-encrypt-pgp
| C-c RET C p	mml-secure-encrypt-pgpmime
| 
| C-c RET c s	mml-secure-message-encrypt-smime
| C-c RET c o	mml-secure-message-encrypt-pgp
| C-c RET c p	mml-secure-message-encrypt-pgpmime
| 
| C-c RET S s	mml-secure-sign-smime
| C-c RET S o	mml-secure-sign-pgp
| C-c RET S p	mml-secure-sign-pgpmime
| 
| C-c RET s s	mml-secure-message-sign-smime
| C-c RET s o	mml-secure-message-sign-pgp
| C-c RET s p	mml-secure-message-sign-pgpmime
`----

I was thinking: Do people switch a lot between using S/MIME, PGP and
PGP/MIME, or do they usually use the same method?

If the latter is true, wouldn't it be friendlier to have a shorter key
binding, say, `C-c RET s' for signing with the default method.  If
invoked with a prefix argument it could query for which method to use.

Re: Security key bindings

[Vasily Korytov]

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>>>>> "JH" == Jesper Harder writes:

 JH> I was thinking: Do people switch a lot between using S/MIME, PGP and
 JH> PGP/MIME, or do they usually use the same method?

Well, I have never seen people using both PGP and S/MIME. As for PGP and
PGP/MIME -- well, I do switch them sometimes.

 JH> If the latter is true, wouldn't it be friendlier to have a shorter key
 JH> binding, say, `C-c RET s' for signing with the default method.  If
 JH> invoked with a prefix argument it could query for which method to use.

Agreed. And the same for encrypting would be also nice IMHO

---Vas

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Re: Security key bindings

[David S Goldberg]

>>>>> On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 09:30:50 +0300, deskpot@myrealbox.com
>>>>> (Vasily Korytov) said:

> Well, I have never seen people using both PGP and S/MIME. As for PGP and
> PGP/MIME -- well, I do switch them sometimes.

I use s/mime at work (it's what the company uses) and pgp among
friends.  I like the idea of setting a default for a shorter key
binding as long as the current bindings remain so I don't have to
remember to reset a variable or remembering to C-u in order to use the
alternate.

-- 
Dave Goldberg
david.goldberg6@verizon.net