@publicvoit@nickanderson I advocated years ago, and still think it’s the right move, for #emacs to handle encryption internally (all the functions are already there from the GnuTLS library) instead of relying on the external #gnupg tool.
Supporting some kind of encryption is easy. Supporting PGP encryption and signing would be a huge endeavor. Hence the value of using GnuPG as an external program.
And yes PGP is obsolete and should be replaced with something much simpler using modern cryptographic primitives, but as usual no one is doing the job, so in the mean time we’re stuck with GnuPg.
@galdor@publicvoit@nickanderson I believe the great majority of #Emacs or any users do not need PGP’s complexity and providing a simple alternative would be very valuable. My attempts were not successful.
However, in my case, I'm using my #OpenPGP setup also for #mutt email workflows and file encryption outside of Emacs. With that, I do have some advantages when using only one encryption keyring from #gnupg.
YMMV
If there would be an Emacs-specific alternative, I'd still switch to it I guess. (Depends on the implementation details.)
@AngryAnt I still need to figure out how this can be done. NixOS seems to be cool but very hard to learn. Easy things from other distros like pinning a package version results in half a day of research, I guess.
@publicvoit@mykhaylo the comments in the reddit thread seemed to indicate the issue is specific to symmetric encryption. My impression is it also wouldn't affect encrypted headings in org.
@nickanderson@mykhaylo At least my issue at hand is that I may decrypt :crypt:-headings, modify them but when trying to save (encrypt), I get an error or the whole heading content is gone.
@nickanderson@mykhaylo I'm encrypting a handful Org-mode headings using the :crypt: tag with a specific OpenPGP-Orgmode-encryption key that is protected by a gnupg passphrase.
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