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Re: [feature request] epa-file-cache-passphrase-for-symmetric-encryption
From: |
anhnmncb |
Subject: |
Re: [feature request] epa-file-cache-passphrase-for-symmetric-encryption timeout. |
Date: |
Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:26:59 +0800 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (windows-nt) |
Ted Zlatanov (2008-11-25 14:56 -0600) wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:43:56 +0900 Daiki Ueno <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>>>>>> In <address@hidden>
>>>>>>> Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:45:16 +0800 anhnmncb <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> a> symmetric file encryption is enough for me :)
>
>>> ping... If Daiki Ueno is not interested I can implement this, but I
>>> wanted to give him a chance to do it since his coding style is pretty
>>> different from mine.
>
> DU> If you do want to implement this, you should consider:
>
> DU> - At the moment I'd rather recommend users to use public-key encryption
> DU> instead of symmetric encryption if they want passphrase caching, since
> DU> they will benefit from gpg-agent which utilizes secure memory. So it's
> DU> intensional that epa-file handles symmetric case specially.
>
> I see.
>
> DU> - As I said many times before (but you don't seem to understand),
> DU> epa-file.el is an application and epg.el is a library.
>
> Thank you for explaining again.
>
> My proposed patch follows. I've tested it.
When will it be committed into emacs source trunk?