Re: gpg/Mailcrypt & emacs

[Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com>]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

> On Mon, Jun 12 2006, Hadron Quark wrote:
>
>> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
>>> What's wrong with PGG?  (IIRC mailcrypt is obsolete.)
>>>
>> Nothing I know of : but google bought up mailcrypt and it seems to work
>> fine and there are lots of online manuals etc. Can you comment on the
>> advantages of pgg? I'll google it up in the morning.
>
> What's wrong with the manuals included in the Gnus distribution? ;-)

What manuals?

I can find no man page for pgg and can find no pgg in my synaptic
package manager. Also, HTML online manuals are usually to read and
navigate.

You dont mean gpg? Which is what I use : mailcrypt talks to gpg as far
as I can tell. At least I used gpg command to build my key ring.

>
> ,----[ (info "(gnus)Top") ]
> | Other related manuals
> | 
> | * Message:(message).         Composing messages.
> | * Emacs-MIME:(emacs-mime).   Composing messages; MIME-specific parts.
> | * Sieve:(sieve).             Managing Sieve scripts in Emacs.
> | * PGG:(pgg).                 PGP/MIME with Gnus.
> | * SASL:(sasl).               SASL authentication in Emacs.
> `----
>
> ,----[ (info "(pgg)Overview") ]
> | PGG is an interface library between Emacs and various tools for secure
> | communication.  Even though Mailcrypt has similar feature, it does not
> | deal with detached PGP messages, normally used in PGP/MIME
> | infrastructure.  This was the main reason why I wrote the new library.
> `----
>
> Bye, Reiner.
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