Re: encrypt.el in No Gnus 0.7

[Daiki Ueno]

2007/11/8, Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>:
> >> > So far Stefan Monnier, Reiner Steib, and I have said this is something
> >> > we want.  Daiki Ueno is the only one to have spoken against it.
> >> > Excluding the package maintainers for each side, this is 2-0.  Any more
> >> > votes for either side?
> >>
> >> They really use encrypt.el and are saying that they want to use such
> >> sort of extension?  It seems not.
>
> Stefan wrote:
> > I think there's enough space in the Emacs world for both to coexist.
>
> Reiner wrote:
> > I think it would be useful to have at least one builtin encryption
> > (without requiring external programs) in Emacs, if possible.

You apperantly misinterpreted their non-negative opinions as positive
supports of including encrypt.el.

I think their opinions are neutral.   They should be considered as 0.
Now the score is 1-2 (including you, RMS and me).  Are you alright?

> I think I have said
> enough on the topic to make up everyone's mind.  I will integrate with
> rijndael.el if anyone needs that.

I think you haven't told enough.  I asked what kind of people do you
think of your users, again and again.  You just told about your
imaginary users.

IIUC, your users must satisfy at least one of the following conditions:

(1) They have some difficulties on installing GnuPG.
(2) They are so interested in cryptography that they want to select
ciphers or rather to implement them, and want to use their ciphers
through too ristricted file-based API.

I estimate the user base to be quite few.  Otherwise we should make
GnuPG installation easier, or provide more flexible API for
user-defined ciphers, including encryption of strings and buffers as
well as files, support for public key encryption, or other many
important features that encrypt.el lacks.

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno