Re: pgg or mailcrypt

[Reiner Steib]

On Mon, Jun 12 2006, Hadron Quark wrote:

> Can anyone offer advice on pgg v mailcrypt.
>
> There is the info page for pgg (thanks Rainer), but I dont really see
> any advantages over mailcrypt (which also comes as a debina package
> complete with default key bindings).

Mailcrypt is not part of Emacs and not actively maintained, AFAICS.
PGG is primary GPG/PGP library in Gnus and Emacs.  PGG is included in
Gnus (and will be included in Emacs 22) and it is actively maintained.

,----[ http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/ ]
| Mailcrypt was last updated on Monday, September 26, 2002. The latest
| version is 3.5.8.
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,----[ http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/ ]
| Things to Do
| 
| [...]
| 
|     * Fix signing under GNUS/Mule. Currently, Emacs marks foreign
|     characters with the byte '\207', which it strips out before
|     posting. Mailcrypt signs buffer contents with those characters,
|     thus generating invalid signatures.
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Bye, Reiner.
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