reopen 503302 forwarded 503302 [EMAIL PROTECTED] retitle 503302 easypg: please support variables for --symmetric and --cipher-algo thanks
On October 26, 2008 at 10:58AM -0700,
ueno (at unixuser.org) wrote:
> 2008/10/25 Tatsuya Kinoshita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > To encrypt *a new file*, epa-file.el asks recipients, while
> > alpaca.el doesn't ask recipients, because alpaca.el always use the
> > gpg -c option. My wish is "use gpg -c for new file" option, and
> > setting epa-file-encrypt-to to "" seems to work like so.
>
> OK, I'll consider a new option which would call
> `epa-file-default-encrypt-to' for that purpose, with an appropriate
> docstring.
Thanks for the new variable.
> > BTW, alpaca.el also uses the gpg option "--cipher-algo AES" for
> > encryption by default. If the alpaca-cipher variable is set to
> > "AES256", "--cipher-algo AES256" is used. Meanwhile epa-file.el
> > seems to use the gpg default ("3DES" or "CAST5"), and I haven't
> > found an easy way to customize it...
>
> Is it not sufficient to set "cipher-algo AES256" in ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf?
Although ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf works, I hope an Emacs Lisp variable for
--cipher-algo will be defined. If it exists, cipher-algo can
temporally be switched in Emacs easily. Could you please consider it?
Thanks,
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Tatsuya Kinoshita
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