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Re: gpg/Mailcrypt & emacs
From: |
Hadron Quark |
Subject: |
Re: gpg/Mailcrypt & emacs |
Date: |
Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:23:10 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 12 2006, Hadron Quark wrote:
>
>> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
>>> What's wrong with PGG? (IIRC mailcrypt is obsolete.)
>>>
>> Nothing I know of : but google bought up mailcrypt and it seems to work
>> fine and there are lots of online manuals etc. Can you comment on the
>> advantages of pgg? I'll google it up in the morning.
>
> What's wrong with the manuals included in the Gnus distribution? ;-)
>
> ,----[ (info "(gnus)Top") ]
> | Other related manuals
> |
> | * Message:(message). Composing messages.
> | * Emacs-MIME:(emacs-mime). Composing messages; MIME-specific parts.
> | * Sieve:(sieve). Managing Sieve scripts in Emacs.
> | * PGG:(pgg). PGP/MIME with Gnus.
> | * SASL:(sasl). SASL authentication in Emacs.
> `----
>
> ,----[ (info "(pgg)Overview") ]
> | PGG is an interface library between Emacs and various tools for secure
> | communication. Even though Mailcrypt has similar feature, it does not
> | deal with detached PGP messages, normally used in PGP/MIME
> | infrastructure. This was the main reason why I wrote the new library.
> `----
>
Gah. Didnt know about it : there were no pgg man pages and a search of
pgg in synaptic gave nothign except gpg.
> Bye, Reiner.
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