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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Re: org-crypt symmetric encryption patch
Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 07:12:47 +0200
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On May 7, 2010, at 5:17 PM, Peter Jones wrote:

> Rick Moynihan <rick.moynihan@gmail.com> writes:
>> I've patched org-crypt to use symmetric encryption.  If org-crypt-key
>> is nil a symmetric cipher is used.
>
> That seems like a pretty simple change.  The documentation for
> epg-encrypt-string says:
>
> ,----
> | If RECIPIENTS is nil, it performs symmetric encryption.
> `----
>
> So, I guess this is right.

OK, I have applied this patch.

>  We should probably update the documentation
> for org-crypt to say that if you don't set a crypt key it will default
> to symmetric encryption.

I have changed this i the file header of org-crypt.el.  However, this
reminded me hat encryption is no documented in the manual.  Would one
of you like to identify  location in a manual where this would fit in
and write a short addition to fix this?

Thanks.

- Carsten