Emacs Auto-PGP 1.04
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This is a bunch of Elisp, Perl and C to allow you to integrate PGP2
(version 2.6[ui] or later) into your Emacs mailreader (and perhaps
also your newsreader).
Features:
o Scans the header of a message to be encrypted to determine the
recipients and thus the keys to use to encrypt.
o Incoming encrypted messages can be decrypted once and then stored
in plaintext, but ...
o Information about the recipient keys of an incoming encrypted
message is preserved.
o Incoming signed and encrypted messages are turned into clearsigned
messages (modulo some bugs/misfeatures in PGP).
o Signatures on incoming messages can be verified in place.
o You only have to type your passphrase once, but ...
o Your passphrase is not stored in your Emacs but in a separate
small program which can easily be killed, or replaced.
o The stored passphrase can easily be used when using pgp from the
Unix command line by using the small wrapper program (which works
just like normal pgp) which the scripts themselves use.
o No modification to the PGP sources necessary.
You should probably not give this software access to important keys if
it is likely that an attacker could gain access to your account, for
example because you are not the sysadmin or the security on your
system is dubious (this is true of most networked Unix systems).
To install it:
Edit the file EDITME to reflect your situation, ie where you want
stuff installed, whether you want to pick up a version from your PATH
or run it via the explicit pathname, etc.
Type `make install'.
This should compile ringsearch and install the programs (using the
scripts included) as you specified in EDITME.
Edit the `dir' file in the Emacs Info directory - add a menu item for
Auto-PGP pointing to the file `auto-pgp.info'.
Now read auto-pgp.info if you haven't done so already.
If you find a bug please READ THE SECTION ON REPORTING BUGS !
- Ian Jackson <
[email protected]>
26th June 1994
