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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Subject: Re: encrypting .authinfo?
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 12:52:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4nekuv1kwa.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3u13xndi4.fsf@defun.localdomain>

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, harder@myrealbox.com wrote:

> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> 
>> I only use my ~/.authinfo for Gnus.  Is there a way to have it
>> stored encrypted on disk, and have Gnus retrieve it and decrypt it
>> automatically (given a passphrase of course)?  I can extend
>> netrc.el, but I was hoping this already existed for Gnus or Emacs
>> in general.
> 
> crypt++.el, maybe?  I don't know if it'll work for .authinfo, but
> it's intended for transparent en/decryption of files.

Has anyone used it?  I don't want to commit to linking netrc.el and
crypt++.el if the latter is not ready.  Furthermore, I'd like
something that worked inside Gnus without external packages - maybe
using the common Unix "crypt" program or even implementing a simple
encryption/decryption algorithm in ELisp.

Ted


  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-23 17:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4nd6amuhne.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu>
2003-12-19 13:28 ` Jesper Harder
2003-12-23 17:52   ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
     [not found] ` <m31xr01ex3.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
     [not found]   ` <831xr02pvp.fsf@torus.sehlabs.com>
     [not found]     ` <m3smjgkl11.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
2003-12-20  8:16       ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-21  4:29       ` Steven E. Harris
2003-12-23 17:36   ` Ted Zlatanov

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