Re: pgg symmetric encryption patch

[Ken Manheimer]

i just posted a new version of my allout patches which depend on the
pgg revisions of sascha and mine, so i thought i'd post a query in
this thread on the status of these patches - the new allout encryption
features won't work without these pgg refinements in place.  i also
should mention rms' initiative to relocate pgg to the lisp/ directory,
since pgg constitutes a facility in its own regard - i'm all for that.

i'm not attaching the pgg changes to this message, but can easily do
so if needed.

ken
address@hidden

On 10/12/05, Ken Manheimer <address@hidden> wrote:
> as threatened, here is a complete patch against the current gnu.org
> lisp/gnus repository.  i've migrated all the allout encryption
> functionality to pgg and exercised this stuff pretty substantially,
> and am very comfortable with the way it works.
>
> there are a bunch of fixes, as well as extensions so the passphrases
> can be managed by the calling functions, as well as refinement of the
> passphrase caching mechanism (so multiple timeouts don't pileup for a
> single passphrase - the last one replaces the prior ones).   lotsa
> goodies.  the patch includes sascha wilde's symmetric-encryption
> additions - basically, the whole deal.
>
> what it does not include is revision of the pgg-pgp.el and pgg-pgp5.el
> modules, to track changes to the pgg api.  i started in on that, only
> to discover that they were already broken by the addition of a 'sign'
> parameter to some of the encryption functions.  there's no way to
> repair that short of implementing the feature for the other packages,
> and i'm not in a position to do that.  (plus, i'm not sure i am
> comfortable with the way it was done for pgg-gpg.)
>
> so it looks like pgg-pgp.el and pgg-pgp5.el are disfunctional already,
> without my changes.  i'm hoping that's not going to prevent the
> introduction of my changes.
>
> i'm going to be heading offline for five days, starting tomorrow, so
> it'll be a bit before i can respond to questions.  i hope the patch
> i'm sending (which  includes detaild ChangeLog entries) will be
> helpful to anyone that wishes to navigate them.
>
> and once again, i'm not sure the attachment will be delivered this
> time.  (it wasn't on a recent try, but then was on a subsequent
> message.  this is the first awkward gmail bug i've hit...)
>
> ken
> address@hidden
>
> On 10/10/05, Ken Manheimer <address@hidden> wrote:
> > for those of you following the developments at home (:-), here's an
> > incremental patch on top of what i sent out a few days ago.  i fixed a
> > small stack of bugs in pgg-gpg.el that settles my complaint about
> > prompting with the secret key identity, and also filled in a small
> > oversight in the changes i sent out a few days ago.
> >
> > while this could be the last pgg patch, i'm still developing, hence
> > the incremental.  i plan to send out a full patch when i've finished
> > transitioning allout to pgg, at which point i expect my mucking with
> > pgg to be settled.  so, repository maintainers may want to wait for
> > that, while i'm hoping those actively involved (eg, sascha) will
> > scrutinize and, ideally, exercise these patches.
> >
> > we'll see if the attached patch makes it through this time.  (i
> > haven't re-attached it, which i think was the problem last time.)  if
> > not, look forward to a followup...