Re: gpg/Mailcrypt & emacs

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

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  (IIRC mailcrypt is obsolete.)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? ;-)

,----[ (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.
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,----[ (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.
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Bye, Reiner.
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