From: Andreas Fuchs <asf@void.at>
Subject: Re: Crypto key bindings considered harmful
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 16:14:19 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873cj09xgn.fsf@eris.void.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fzn0eexx.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>
Today, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> Key sequences such as 'C-c C-m c' are a *very* bad idea. Guess
> why. 8-/
Ugh, right.
> The crypto support has more serious usability problems (e.g. if the
> '#secure' tag is not at the beginning of the message, it is ignored
> without warning *sigh*).
Add "if there are more than one #secure tags present, only the first
one is used" - much fun can be had with an "auto-sign?" question when
sending the mail, but the mail should be encrypted.
> Is anybody looking at such issues? I plan to write a general check
> list to evaluate crypto-enabled mail clients, but I can't promise
> anything right now (too much other tasks).
Sounds like a great idea.
--
Andreas Fuchs, <asf@acm.org>, asf@jabber.at, antifuchs
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-27 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-27 12:45 Florian Weimer
2003-05-27 13:13 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-27 16:14 ` Andreas Fuchs [this message]
2003-05-27 18:03 ` Chris Green
2003-05-27 18:55 ` Romain FRANCOISE
2003-05-27 21:36 ` Andreas Fuchs
2003-05-27 22:01 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-05-27 22:19 ` lawrence mitchell
2003-05-27 22:34 ` Florian Weimer
2003-05-27 23:06 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-10-18 13:02 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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