GPGME (was: netrc field encryption in auth-source)

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:09:42 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> 
wrote: 

LMI> Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:
>> Is there a decent cipher that's built into Emacs, as a fallback if GPG
>> is not installed and usable?  I don't see one.

LMI> It's kinda odd that Emacs doesn't have `gpg-encode-string' built in,
LMI> isn't it?  I mean, it has sha1 and stuff.  :-)

There's `epg-encrypt-string' but it still uses the GPG program under the
covers.

I hope Daiki Ueno could consider augmenting EPA/EPG with
http://www.gnupg.org/related_software/gpgme/index.en.html, which is a
library specifically designed so we can talk to GPG directly and
securely through C.

I would love to see that happen.  I would contribute to the work in any
way I can, either in EPA/EPG or as a separate effort if Daiki Ueno is
not able or interested to do it.

Ted