Re: pgg, gnupg, and PGP?

[Simon Josefsson]

Bill Harris <bill_harris@facilitatedsystems.com> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
>> That's good to hear.  Just out of curiosity, would you mind sharing
>> your pgg related settings in ~/.gnus or ~/.emacs?  I'm trying to
>> understand whether the default behavior could be improved somehow, to
>> match what typical users really want.
>
> From my .emacs:

Thanks.

> ,----
> | ;; set up GnuPG
> | 
> | (require 'pgg)

Shouldn't be required.

> | ;; verify all signatures: see my USENET posting of 2004-07-23
> | 
> | (setq gnus-buttonized-mime-types
> |   '("multipart/encrypted" "multipart/signed"))

Should probably not be the default.

> |  '(pgg-cache-passphrase t)

This is now the default.

> |  '(pgg-gpg-program "c:/Program Files/Windows Privacy Tools/GnuPG/gpg.exe")

I can understand if this might be required.

All in all, the defaults seem to be pretty sane.