changeset 105120:e9b2a988e884

(epa-file-cache-passphrase-for-symmetric-encryption): Document that this option is not recommended to use.
author Daiki Ueno <ueno@unixuser.org>
date Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:01:09 +0000
parents 7ee8ac9e4f24
children 129aaf4e2823
files lisp/ChangeLog lisp/epa-file.el
diffstat 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/lisp/ChangeLog	Sat Sep 19 21:26:49 2009 +0000
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog	Sun Sep 20 02:01:09 2009 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2009-09-20  Daiki Ueno  <ueno@unixuser.org>
+
+	* epa-file.el (epa-file-cache-passphrase-for-symmetric-encryption):
+	Document that this option is not recommended to use.
+
 2009-09-19  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
 
 	* calc/calc-graph.el (calc-graph-lookup): Avoid assignment to free
--- a/lisp/epa-file.el	Sat Sep 19 21:26:49 2009 +0000
+++ b/lisp/epa-file.el	Sun Sep 20 02:01:09 2009 +0000
@@ -25,7 +25,11 @@
 (require 'epa-hook)
 
 (defcustom epa-file-cache-passphrase-for-symmetric-encryption nil
-  "If non-nil, cache passphrase for symmetric encryption."
+  "If non-nil, cache passphrase for symmetric encryption.
+
+For security reasons, this option is turned off by default and
+not recommended to use.  Use public-key encryption with gpg-agent
+instead, which does the same job in a safer way."
   :type 'boolean
   :group 'epa-file)