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Re: encrypt.el in No Gnus 0.7
From: |
Sascha Wilde |
Subject: |
Re: encrypt.el in No Gnus 0.7 |
Date: |
Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:40:44 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'd rather get actual votes at this point than debate semantics. So, if
> anyone wants to vote for or against encrypt.el, please do
Then: I vote against it's inclusion.
Reasons:
- there is no clear indication that it provides useful features to
a significant group of Emacs users
- the group of people wanting to play around with cryptographic
algorithms is very special and probably small
- experimenting with cryptographic infrastructure (starting from
algorithms over pass phrase management to IPC and memory management in
cryptographic tool changes) by untrained people leads to less security
and productive use of the results of such experiments should by no
means be encouraged.
sascha
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Sascha Wilde
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- Re: encrypt.el in No Gnus 0.7, (continued)
- Re: encrypt.el in No Gnus 0.7, Richard Stallman, 2007/11/07
- Re: encrypt.el in No Gnus 0.7, Ted Zlatanov, 2007/11/07
- Re: encrypt.el in No Gnus 0.7, Daiki Ueno, 2007/11/07
- Re: encrypt.el in No Gnus 0.7, Daiki Ueno, 2007/11/07
- Re: encrypt.el in No Gnus 0.7, Ted Zlatanov, 2007/11/08
- Re: encrypt.el in No Gnus 0.7, Daiki Ueno, 2007/11/08
- Re: encrypt.el in No Gnus 0.7, Leo, 2007/11/08
- Re: encrypt.el in No Gnus 0.7, Ted Zlatanov, 2007/11/08
- Re: encrypt.el in No Gnus 0.7, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2007/11/09
- Re: encrypt.el in No Gnus 0.7, Richard Stallman, 2007/11/09
- Re: encrypt.el in No Gnus 0.7,
Sascha Wilde <=
- Re: encrypt.el in No Gnus 0.7, Reiner Steib, 2007/11/06
- Re: encrypt.el in No Gnus 0.7, Ted Zlatanov, 2007/11/07
- Re: encrypt.el in No Gnus 0.7, Stefan Monnier, 2007/11/07
- Re: encrypt.el in No Gnus 0.7, Ted Zlatanov, 2007/11/07
- Re: encrypt.el in No Gnus 0.7, Reiner Steib, 2007/11/07
- Re: encrypt.el in No Gnus 0.7, Ted Zlatanov, 2007/11/07
Re: encrypt.el in No Gnus 0.7, Ted Zlatanov, 2007/11/02