Re: Syncing Gnus and Emacs repositories

[Daiki Ueno]

>>>>> In <address@hidden> 
>>>>>   Sascha Wilde <address@hidden> wrote:
> Daiki Ueno <address@hidden> wrote:
> [...]
> > Frankly, (at least) I don't want to extend PGG to support these issues,
> > because that requires almost rewrite of the slightly outdated code
> > (actually, PGG is my first elisp program written about 10 years ago ;-)
> >
> >> What does it use instead?
> >
> > EasyPG.  If it is available, Gnus automatically detects it.

> In general I agree that replacing PGG is TRTTD.  I haven't had time to
> look at EasyPG yet, but some questions come to my mind: 

> - are the features I added to PGG (symmetric encryption, use of
>   gpg-agent) already in EasyPG?

Yes, but the implementation is different.

> - how does EasyPG communicate with gpg?

>   The (strongly) recommended way to utilizes gpg in applications is
>   using the gpgme api (or maybe the assuan protocol directly, but I'm
>   not sure about this, I added Werner Koch to the CC, so he might
>   comment on this).

You didn't look into the source code of GPGME, did you?  GPGME just
invokes "gpg" or "gpgsm" commands and communicates with them in the same
way as EasyPG does.

> - Is there any S/MIME support in EasyPG?
>   As gpg supports S/MIME since version 2.x this would be a great
>   enhancement.

Already there.  Gnus interface is also available.

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno