Richard Stallman <rms(a)gnu.org&gt; writes: If I am understanding you properly, then, the issue is: How do we add cryptographic functionality to Emacs without removing the impetus to create a free SSH-like tool? It seems to me that this is not a question for Emacs. A free replacement for ssh would do well to mimic ssh's command-line interface. This would solve both the problem of tying Emacs to non-free foundations and allow programs besides Emacs to simply plug-in an SSH replacement, should they choose to do so. Is this not true? Or is the concern that if people are able to easily transfer files from system to system via SSH via Emacs that progress on a free replacement would stop? -- Matt Curtin cmcurtin(a)interhack.net http://www.interhack.net/people/cmcurtin/