Re: encrypt.el in No Gnus 0.7

[Daiki Ueno]

2007/11/5, Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>:
> >> 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.

In that case, the first thing you should do is to provide real "use
cases" of user-defined ciphers, I think.

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno