Re: Store news server authentication credentials for gnus in an encrypted manner.

[Hongyi Zhao]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 12:03 AM Vegard Vesterheim
<vegard.vesterheim@uninett.no> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 23:26:14 +0800 Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I noticed the FAQ 3-3 for gnus at
> > <https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/FAQ-3_002d3.html>,
> > which uses the file ~/.authinfo to store the news server
> > authentication information with file mode bits set to 600.
> >
> > But I want to know if there are some encrypted methods for such a job.
> > Any hints will be highly appreciated.
>
> Encrypt the data with GPG and save the data in ~/.authinfo.gpg.
>
> https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/keeping-secrets-in-emacs-gnupg-auth-sources
> https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusEncryptedAuthInfo

To be frank, the notes/instructions on emacswiki were written a long
time ago, while the ones on masteringemacs is up to date. So, I prefer
the former.

Regards
-- 
Assoc. Prof. Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Theory and Simulation of Materials
Hebei Polytechnic University of Science and Technology engineering
NO. 552 North Gangtie Road, Xingtai, China