Re: lisp/url/url-https.el

[Simon Josefsson]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> There is crypt++, but when it was discussed in the context of Gnus, I
>> think it was decided it was not really good enough, the programmatic
>> elisp API insufficient, and that we could never get copyright papers
>> for it anyway.  I believe it was suggested to make a generic package
>> for this.  This same problem does indeed occur in many situations.  I
>> thought, but perhaps I have just been secretly wishing it, that Ted
>> was working on something like that.
>
> Maybe I didn't express myself clearly enough: I was talking about writing
> a generic package (like crypt++) such that Gnus does not need to know about
> encryption at all (i.e. the package uses generic hooks so Gnus does not need
> to call it explicitly.  At most Gnus would just need a way to specify
> a different file name than ~/.authinfo, which is probably already the case).

That's exactly what I had in mind.  Such a package would be useful,
and looks rather simple to implement (if one can assume e.g. GnuPG).