From 0fe02b207882ab995b58df544135d54047e9d35b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ueno Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 04:24:00 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Fixed. --- README | 29 +++++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) 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 ** PGG based MUA -PGG is somewhat outdated PGP library used by old Gnus, MH-E, etc. +PGG is outdated PGP library used by old Gnus (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. -- 1.7.10.4