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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 3.5.6.  The
documentation was last updated on August 29, 1998.

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.

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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

Hooking into VM

Hooking into MH-E

Hooking into Gnus

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.