From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/7515 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hadron Quark Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: gpg/Mailcrypt & emacs Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:18:53 +0200 Message-ID: <87wtbmhgua.fsf@news.europe.ch> References: <87ejxvy2im.fsf@news.europe.ch> <87irn7tio5.fsf@news.europe.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1150105247 20422 80.91.229.2 (12 Jun 2006 09:40:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:40:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 12 11:40:47 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FpiuL-0004os-Ss for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:40:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FpiuL-000226-FJ for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 05:40:29 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 47 Original-X-Trace: individual.net dEM6Hl8zE+DsaETHdlvlkwj7NXI8Aufr9XgCU+j+ZT7bjnvHfp X-Orig-Path: news.europe.ch!news X-Face: 2h#||Cd#d%F*NCm59[_6/{1a@jy%; |j>{D~4^gKg(^i%7j0IK?+,/GmW&:CD5fEKb_! User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:tB4igGzd+Hi9RAQjvD8SXUST/Rw= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:77699 Original-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:7515 Archived-At: Reiner Steib writes: > On Mon, Jun 12 2006, Hadron Quark wrote: > >> Reiner Steib 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. > -- > ,,, > (o o) > ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/ --