[Mew-dist 05735] Re: decrypting non-pgp/mime pgp5.x messages

[Kazu Yamamoto ( 山本和彦 )]

From: sen_ml at example.com
Subject: [Mew-dist 05734] decrypting non-pgp/mime pgp5.x messages
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 19:56:54 +0900

>   i'd like to be able to decrypt pgp5 messages which are not sent as
> pgp/mime, but i didn't find any functions to do so within mew -- i searched
> the mailing list archives, which seemed to say that support may be added 
> in the future.  is this correct?

PGP 5 support is planed in the future. But this means that Mew will
provide an interface to select algorithm of both hash and
encryption. To my best knowledge, verification and decrypting works
well in the current beta.

If you are talking MIME stuff, instead of PGP version, the answer is
no. Actually, old Mew provided manual description/verification
mechanism. But it works only for English. If languages other than
English is encrypted, how to guess its character set without any
labels? All in all, the old PGP format is not attractive in these
days.

Sen, I can understand what you want. But we repeated this discussion
many times. I don't want to discuss this issue again, sorry.

>   to use this, you need to create a directory named ~/.pgp/tmp/ (mode
> should be something like 700 i think) -- decrypted files are placed
> here -- i don't think placing decrypted files in /tmp is a good idea,
> what do people think?

I do. Because we can't ensure that our home directory locates on the
local file system, I chose /tmp. If you are using NFS, your decrypted
message may be tire-tapped.

> p.s. using mew and pgp5 w/ debian required that i put:
> 
> (setq mew-prog-pgp "pgp5")
> 
> in my .emacs file -- i believe this is because the pgp binary gets
> installed as pgp5...is there some way to deal w/ this nicely within
> mew? 

If your PGP 5 is installed as "pgp5", that is the only way. I think
that PGP 5 should be installed as "pgp5" by default like "perl5" so
that we can distinguish it with PGP 2, however, it's too late.

> p.p.s. are there any plans for supporting mailing list commands w/in
> mew?  in particular, i was thinking it would be nice to be able to
> issue commands which automatically subsrcibe, unsubscribe, etc. for
> different mailing list types (ezmlm, majordomo, etc.)

Personally, I don't plan. It would be appreciated if someone will
contribute such codes.

--Kazu