Please.. PGP/gnupg - for signing, encryption and decryption of mail so why not also for encryption of the password file?
I'm neither for nor against PGP keys at the moment since I've never used them. But I very strongly agreee that if alpine has only one password encryption method on *ix, it should be something that works for remote access and independent of desktop implementations.
For those of use who have never set up PGP keys, can you briefly describe the user experiencec. Would using them result in typing in exactly one password every time alpine is started, or can the key be kept around by something akin to ssh-agent? Can the key be forwarded across connections?
If not, I would still advocate support for encrypting using ssh keys. A quick look at an ssh-agent FAQ makes it look like this is possible. It might involve somthing screwy like encrypting the password with the RSA public key, then requesting the agent to "encrypt" the file with the RSA private key.
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