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david.goldberg6@verizon.net (David S. Goldberg) writes:

> I also find it annoying to have to type my passphrase twice per
> message.  I keep hearing that gpg will soon support s/mime.

It supposedly already does, but I haven't gotten it to work completely
enough to write an Emacs interface for it.

> If/when that happens, would the pgg interface then take care of
> this?

No, but a separate Gnus<->gpgsmime interface could be written.

Also, the current smime.el could perhaps be extended to use
password.el to do password caching.

>> You can specify the key/cert in the MML tags, if that is what you
>> meant.  See 'MML Definition' in the Emacs MIME manual.  You can say,
>> e.g.:
>
>> <#part sign=smime keyfile="~/cacert.user.key">
>
> I use <#multipart> which ends up being a complete replacement the
> <#secure> tag in that the signature applies to the entire message.
> I've never got the <#secure> tat to work if there are multiple
> recipients.

It might be a bug.