Re: Let us see how to encrypt with Emacs?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2021 14:32:10 +0300
> From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> > > ‘STRING’
> > >      A string as input will be used directly.  It may be modified by the
> > >      function (unlike most other Emacs Lisp functions) to reduce the
> > > chance of exposing sensitive data after the function does its work.
> > > 
> > > I am trying to use list with STRING as following and that does not work:
> > > 
> > > (gnutls-symmetric-encrypt "CHACHA20-64" (string-pad "MyPassword987" 32) 
> > > (make-string 16 (random 100)) '(STRING "Text to encrypt"))
> > 
> > What do you mean by "does not work"?
> 
> I get invalid object argument: STRING so I do not understand how to use 
> STRING there.

You are misinterpreting what the manual shows.  STRING in upper-case
is a meta-syntactic variable, it means in actual usage you need to
_replace_ it with a Lisp string.  So just use "Text to encrypt",
without the rest.