Mailcrypt
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Mailcrypt is an Emacs Lisp package which provides a simple but
powerful interface to cryptographic functions for mail and news.
This documentation describes Mailcrypt version 3.5.4. The
documentation was last updated on August 29, 1998.
Menu
- Introduction
- Read this first.
- General Use
- Everyday cryptographic functions.
- Remailer Support
- Interface to secure anonymous remailers.
- Passphrase Cache
- Letting Mailcrypt remember your passphrase
for a while.
- Key Fetching
- Automatically retrieving public keys
via finger or HTTP.
- Miscellaneous Configuration
- Random tweakables.
- Tips
- Hints and tricks.
- Limitations
- Things Mailcrypt does not do.
- References
- Pointers to relevant information.
- Credits
- Whom to blame.
- Index
- Keys, variables, and functions.
-- The Detailed Node Listing --
Introduction
- Prerequisites
- Complicated stuff you may have to do.
- Installation
- Simple stuff you probably have to do.
- Command Overview
- A brief summary of the most common
commands.
Installation
- Hooking into Rmail
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- Hooking into VM
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- Hooking into MH-E
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- Hooking into Gnus
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General Use
- Encrypting
- Encrypting a message to one or more
recipients.
- Signing
- Clearsigning a message.
- Inserting Keys
- Extracting a key from your public key
ring and inserting it.
- Decrypting
- Decrypting a message to you.
- Verifying
- Verifying the signature on a clearsigned
message.
- Snarfing Keys
- Finding a key in the current message and
adding it to your keyring.
Remailer Support
- Remailer Introduction
- A little about remailers in general.
- Remailer Quick Start
- Getting started quickly.
- Remailer Chains
- Creating custom chains of your very own.
- Response Blocks
- A way to let people reply to your
anonymous messages.
- Pseudonyms
- Who do you want to be today?
- Remailing Posts
- Posting to USENET anonymously or
pseduonymously.
- Mixmaster Support
- Remailers for the truly paranoid.
- Remailer Security
- Caveats.
- Verifiable Pseudonyms
- Giving expression to the voices in your
head.
- Remailer Tips
- Free advice.
Key Fetching
- Keyring Fetch
- Fetching from one or more other
keyrings on the local system.
- Finger Fetch
- Fetching a key through finger.
- HTTP Fetch
- Fetching a key off of the Web.
Miscellaneous Configuration
- Alternate Keyring
- Specifying a different file to act
like your public keyring.
- Comment Field
- Burma
Shave
- Mode Line
- Changing that "MC-w" and "MC-r" stuff
- Key Bindings
- Which keys cause which actions.
- Nonstandard Paths
- Useful if your PGP installation is weird.
References
- Online Resources
- Recreational reading with a purpose.
- Key Servers
- Keepers of the Global Keyring.
- Mailing List
- Staying informed while pumping the
authors' egos.
- Politics
- Anarcho-foobarism.