Hi, Although I found and read (not necessarily understood :-) ) the security related parts of the Gnus manual (e.g., C-h i Gnus -> Security), I still have the following questions concerning signing and encryption of messages with Gnus:
1) What is a useful/meaningful setup in ~/.gnus.el for obtaining enabling GnusPG for PGP/MIME? I figured the following to be useful: (setq mm-verify-option 'always); always verify signed parts (setq mm-decrypt-option 'always); always decrypt encrypted parts (setq gnus-message-replysign t); gnus-message-replyencrypt, gnus-message-replysignencrypted are already t by default I also found Gnus users who set (setq gnus-treat-x-pgp-sig t) but I could not find sufficient documentation of gnus-treat-x-pgp-sig to determine whether this is useful. 2) Why are gnus-message-replyencrypt and gnus-message-replysignencrypted set to t by default, but gnus-message-replysign defaults to nil? Has this been forgotten in the recent change (see http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/75543)? 3) Is it "good practice" to always sign messages? AFAIK, this does not require the recipient to deal with encryption, but he could at least check that the message has the correct signature. How would one always sign messages in Gnus by default? 4) Where are my private/public keys? I never saw them nor was asked to generate them. 5) Am I correct in that signing a message simply requires C-c C-m s p? (and signing + encrypting C-c C-m c p?) I tried to send a test mail to [email protected] (mentioned on the german wiki page http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Privacy_Guard). I used C-c C-m c p. On sending via C-c C-c, I received "No public key for <[email protected]>; skip it? (y or n)". I chose 'y', since the public key will be sent by [email protected]. I then obtained "mml2015-epg-encrypt: No recipient specified". What does this mean? Cheers, Marius PS: I am working with Emacs 24 under Ubuntu 12.04 with Gnus v5.13. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
