From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/17734 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uwe Brauer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help,gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: S/MIME with OpenSSL? Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 16:42:31 +0000 Message-ID: <87bnb1ztzc.fsf@mat.ucm.es> References: <87r3k0wjqx.fsf@informationelle-selbstbestimmung-im-internet.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447173797 7334 80.91.229.3 (10 Nov 2015 16:43:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 16:43:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: info-gnus-english@gnu.org To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 10 17:43:02 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwC0b-0003OP-H1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 17:43:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34013 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwC0a-0005eU-TI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 11:43:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57220) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwC0P-0005e2-1j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 11:42:49 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwC0K-0000IZ-Un for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 11:42:48 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:50168) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwC0K-0000IF-Nw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 11:42:44 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwC0H-00034i-G6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 17:42:41 +0100 Original-Received: from gilgamesch.quim.ucm.es ([147.96.12.99]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 17:42:41 +0100 Original-Received: from oub by gilgamesch.quim.ucm.es with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 17:42:41 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: gilgamesch.quim.ucm.es Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1eyNuow8Xhf14Bwg1GkIhER2Um4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:108022 gmane.emacs.gnus.user:17734 Archived-At: >>> "Jens" == Jens Lechtenboerger writes: > Hi there, > Currently, openssl is preferred over epg (gpgsm), via > (defcustom mml-smime-use (if (featurep 'epg) 'epg 'openssl)) > in mml-smime.el. However, epg does not get loaded on its own even if it > is present. Thus, users need to set mml-smime-use or require epg in > their ~/.emacs, but the manual does not mention gpgsm at all. > I plan to change this to prefer epg by default (and to document and > recommend gpgsm). > What’s your opinion? I agree completely. > Best wishes > Jens > P.S. I’d like to clarify that I recommend OpenPGP, not S/MIME. > Still, S/MIME is better than plaintext. The problem is that openpgp, in my experience, much more difficult to install and to use than S/MIME. I can provide a list why this is so. This list of people with whom I communicate in S/MIME contains 8 individuals, for opengpg there is just 1.