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Re: How to set up signing/encryption with GnuPG? Some newbie questions
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Kevin Brubeck Unhammer |
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Re: How to set up signing/encryption with GnuPG? Some newbie questions |
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Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:45:20 +0200 |
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Marius Hofert <marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch> writes:
>> > 1) What is a useful/meaningful setup in ~/.gnus.el for obtaining enabling
>> > GnusPG
>> > for PGP/MIME?
>> > I figured the following to be useful:
>> > (setq mm-verify-option 'always); always verify signed parts
>> > (setq mm-decrypt-option 'always); always decrypt encrypted parts
>> > (setq gnus-message-replysign t); gnus-message-replyencrypt,
>> > gnus-message-replysignencrypted are already t by default
>> > I also found Gnus users who set
>> > (setq gnus-treat-x-pgp-sig t)
>> > but I could not find sufficient documentation of gnus-treat-x-pgp-sig to
>> > determine whether this is useful.
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>> There's also these two (defaulting to nil):
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>> mm-sign-option 'guided
>> mm-encrypt-option 'guided
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> Thanks, Kevin.
>
> Do you know what gnus-treat-x-pgp-sig does? I could not find documentation on
> this.
`C-h v gnus-treat-x-pgp-sig RET' lead me to the info files, whence I
found this:
`W p'
Verify a signed control message (`gnus-article-verify-x-pgp-sig').
Control messages such as `newgroup' and `checkgroups' are usually
signed by the hierarchy maintainer. You need to add the PGP
public key of the maintainer to your keyring to verify the
message.(1)
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Kevin Brubeck Unhammer
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