Re: encrypt.el in No Gnus 0.7

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 11:49:50 +0900 "Daiki Ueno" <address@hidden> wrote: 

DU> 2007/11/2, Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>:
DU> I think encrypt-file-alist is too much custamisable since GnuPG
DU> records what cipher is used to encrypt in the PGP message.  See
DU> RFC2440.
>> 
>> Again, you're tightly bound to GnuPG.  Does EasyPG support arbitrary,
>> user-supplied ciphers?  I didn't see that ability.

DU> I doubt that the ability is worth considering.  Who wants to use
DU> user-supplied ciphers which are appearantly weaker than ones GnuPG
DU> supports?

The proper question is, why don't you let the users use the ciphers and
external utilities they want?  You are assuming that every Emacs user
will a) install GnuPG, and b) find it adequate.  Furthermore, you're
basing your "apparently weaker" argument on an example XOR
implementation I supplied to show the API, which is unfair.

Ted