Re: ASCII encryption

[Daiki Ueno]

Jambunathan K <address@hidden> writes:

>>> epa-armor is like the biblical forbidden fruit with hints of both
>>> pleasure and pain.  The ultimate end it achieves is to leave mere
>>> mortals in a state of perpetual confusion on private matters.
>>
>> So I that (setq epa-armor t) in my emacs file is not a good idea?
>
> That's what the last line of the docstring says.  It is confusing and
> also scary.

> | You should bind this variable with `let', but do not set it globally.

I think it is normal as coding-system-for-write, etc.  What's the problem?

epa-encrypt-file could surely be improved for ASCII armor though.  One
idea is to query user with "Save File: " prompt and if the answer ends
with ".asc", encrypt in ASCII armor instead of binary.

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno