From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/63655 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Security flaw in pgg-gpg-process-region? Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 19:48:47 +0200 Message-ID: <854pvnsetc.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <9c79059a-61a9-4fa4-8376-638753320a14@well-done.deisui.org> <4aaf7080-0e3d-4a75-aff5-f9d5bcd0437f@well-done.deisui.org> <87fyjz2gaj.fsf@pacem.orebokech.com> <8980fd83-08b6-4aef-97f2-a659cd2eadb2@well-done.deisui.org> <180dcf90-af71-4f6d-b0d0-57d364218c73@broken.deisui.org> <6d43cc51-e472-405c-b372-dba7ef5a914d@broken.deisui.org> <2234179d-6686-49f4-b38b-b06788041225@well-done.deisui.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1157392246 14204 80.91.229.2 (4 Sep 2006 17:50:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 17:50:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, ding@gnus.org, Reiner.Steib@gmx.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+m12181@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Sep 04 19:50:43 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GKIac-00081N-4l for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 19:50:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1GKIaY-0000cQ-00; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:50:26 -0500 Original-Received: from nas02.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.40]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1GKIaK-0000cL-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:50:12 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.227.211]) by nas02.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GKIaJ-0007CY-0j for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:50:12 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1GKIaH-0000xm-00 for ; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 19:50:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1GKIaA-0001ia-7T; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 13:50:02 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id DA59E1C4D3A4; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 19:48:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Daiki Ueno In-Reply-To: <2234179d-6686-49f4-b38b-b06788041225@well-done.deisui.org> (Daiki Ueno's message of "Tue, 05 Sep 2006 02:45:53 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:63655 gmane.emacs.devel:59330 Archived-At: Daiki Ueno writes: > Second, (1) causes a problem which forbids using ISO-8859-1 > characters in passphrases. So he proposed (2), but it was not a > correct fix (passphrases should be encoded in locale-coding-system > rather than just making them unibyte) and it was not working before > the reversion. I think this is not so important problem, since it > can be avoided by using ASCII only passphrases in practice. Passphrases exist outside of Emacs, and you don't have the option of just typing something else. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum