From: ueno <ueno>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 04:24:00 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Fixed.
X-Git-Tag: epg-0_0_6~6
X-Git-Url: http://git.chise.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0fe02b207882ab995b58df544135d54047e9d35b;p=elisp%2Fepg.git

Fixed.
---

diff --git a/README b/README
index 30f6f01..e7961cf 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ User Agents.)
 
 ** CVS version of Gnus
 
-CVS version of Gnus supports EasyPG natively, simply put the following
-line into your ~/.emacs.
+CVS version of Gnus supports EasyPG natively.  To use, simply put the
+following line into your ~/.emacs.
 
   (setq mml2015-use 'epg)
 
@@ -49,20 +49,24 @@ Other options which affect on the binding are
   mml2015-passphrase-cache-expiry
   mml2015-verbose
 
-NOTE: You need not to install pgg-epg.el in this case.
+NOTE: You don't need pgg-epg.el in this case.
 
 ** PGG based MUA
 
-PGG is somewhat outdated PGP library used by old Gnus, MH-E, etc.
+PGG is outdated PGP library used by old Gnus (< v5.11), MH-E, etc.
 
-There is a PGG backend using EasyPG called pgg-epg.el.  However,
-EasyPG API is a superset of PGG, so pgg-epg.el just emulates the old
-behavior of pgg.el.  Major features which PGG lacks are
+There is a PGG backend written EasyPG called pgg-epg.el.  However,
+EasyPG API is a superset of PGG and pgg-epg.el provides nothing but
+compatibility with PGG.
 
-- Key selection user interface
-- Diagnosis interface to the verify operation
-- Web of trust
-- S/MIME using gpgsm
+Major limitations of PGG
+
+- PGG doesn't have a user interface to select keys for typical
+  cryptographic operations
+- PGG doesn't handle messages signed with multiple keys correctly
+- PGG doesn't handle binary OpenPGP messages
+- PGG always trusts keys for encryption
+- PGG only supports OpenPGP.  EasyPG supports S/MIME as well.
 
 ** SEMI based MUA
 
@@ -73,7 +77,8 @@ be downloaded from the same site of the EasyPG distribution point.
 
 * Security
 
-There are security pitfalls around Emacs.
+There are security pitfalls around Emacs.  EasyPG is written with
+avoiding them.
 
 ** Passphrase may leak to a temporary file.