From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Streamlining first-time Gnus usage
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:40:59 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ei9jyrg4.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3tyih4hf9.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:11:06 +0100 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
LMI> I've now made netrc.el cache in-memory the contents of the
LMI> ~/.authinfo.gpg file. It uses state-of-the-art rot13+base64 encryption
LMI> to make it impossible for root to look at /dev/kmem to find out what the
LMI> passwords really are.
Oh, but what if the user modifies the file, do you refresh?
I really don't like my secrets in memory outside of the EPA-managed
buffer. So I'm against this change even if it seems to be more
convenient. Better to let EPA cache the results, if it can, or use a
non-encrypted file if you don't like it.
So maybe auth-source.el should, the first time it's started, ask "hey,
do you want a EPA-GPG-encrypted file, or are you happy with storing all
your secrets in plain sight?" instead of defaulting to EPA as it does
now. But regardless of all that the data should not be cached in memory.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-15 15:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 128+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-13 16:10 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-13 16:15 ` Julien Danjou
2010-12-13 16:29 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-13 16:44 ` Julien Danjou
2010-12-13 16:52 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-13 17:33 ` Julien Danjou
2010-12-13 19:07 ` Getting rid of the primary/secondary distinction (was: Streamlining first-time Gnus usage) Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-14 10:06 ` Getting rid of the primary/secondary distinction Julien Danjou
2010-12-15 19:44 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-15 15:46 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-15 19:42 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-15 20:51 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-15 21:17 ` Philipp Haselwarter
2010-12-15 21:31 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-15 21:27 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-15 21:36 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-16 18:08 ` Adam Sjøgren
2010-12-15 20:29 ` Steinar Bang
2010-12-15 20:52 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-15 21:05 ` Steinar Bang
2010-12-15 21:30 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-16 13:21 ` Andy Moreton
2010-12-16 16:17 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-13 19:55 ` Streamlining first-time Gnus usage Dan Christensen
2010-12-13 20:22 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-15 15:43 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-13 20:23 ` Adam Sjøgren
2010-12-13 20:26 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-13 20:47 ` Adam Sjøgren
2010-12-13 17:02 ` Adam Sjøgren
2010-12-13 17:05 ` Adam Sjøgren
2010-12-13 17:17 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-13 17:48 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-13 19:11 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-15 15:40 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2010-12-15 20:11 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-15 15:36 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-13 19:16 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-12-13 20:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-14 8:07 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-12-14 9:54 ` Julien Danjou
2010-12-14 10:20 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-12-14 10:34 ` Julien Danjou
2010-12-14 11:07 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2010-12-15 15:34 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-15 20:05 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-15 20:57 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-15 21:29 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-16 16:22 ` Poll time: Topics should default to on or off? (was: Streamlining first-time Gnus usage) Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-16 16:28 ` Poll time: Topics should default to on or off? Julien Danjou
2010-12-16 17:30 ` David Edmondson
2010-12-16 19:46 ` Steinar Bang
2010-12-16 20:12 ` Richard Riley
2010-12-16 20:21 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-16 20:53 ` Steinar Bang
2010-12-16 21:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-16 21:20 ` Adam Sjøgren
2010-12-16 21:27 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2010-12-17 2:15 ` jidanni
2010-12-17 10:32 ` Richard Riley
2010-12-17 14:13 ` changes to spam.el (was: Poll time: Topics should default to on or off?) Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-16 22:52 ` Poll time: Topics should default to on or off? Greg Troxel
2010-12-18 20:41 ` Reiner Steib
2010-12-18 21:40 ` Steinar Bang
2010-12-19 14:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-19 15:44 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-19 22:23 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-01-22 3:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-24 17:55 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-01-24 18:24 ` Robert Pluim
2011-01-24 22:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-24 22:35 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-01-24 22:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-25 17:01 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-01-25 22:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-26 16:57 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-01-26 22:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-27 19:38 ` how to start clean Gnus (was: Poll time: Topics should default to on or off?) Ted Zlatanov
2011-01-27 23:59 ` how to start clean Gnus Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-28 7:39 ` Reiner Steib
2011-01-28 15:41 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-21 20:53 ` Poll time: Topics should default to on or off? Steven E. Harris
2010-12-21 21:14 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-12-22 23:10 ` Steven E. Harris
2010-12-23 8:08 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-12-23 12:53 ` Matt Lundin
2010-12-23 13:14 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-12-23 19:22 ` Steinar Bang
2011-01-19 22:22 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-01-02 6:31 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-03 6:53 ` Steinar Bang
2011-01-04 0:06 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-04 9:09 ` Steinar Bang
2010-12-15 20:03 ` Streamlining first-time Gnus usage Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-13 21:26 ` Philipp Haselwarter
2010-12-13 21:57 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-13 22:23 ` Philipp Haselwarter
2010-12-15 15:31 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-14 8:55 ` Francis Moreau
2010-12-16 18:17 ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-02-15 21:04 ` Unmark old messages Johnny
2011-02-15 21:17 ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-02-15 21:39 ` Johnny
2011-02-15 21:58 ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-02-15 22:28 ` Johnny
2011-02-15 22:47 ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-02-15 23:11 ` Johnny
2010-12-15 15:50 ` Streamlining first-time Gnus usage Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-16 13:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-12-16 16:29 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-17 16:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-12-17 16:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-18 21:01 ` Reiner Steib
2010-12-18 23:11 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-14 10:21 ` Richard Riley
2010-12-14 1:49 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2010-12-14 8:39 ` Steinar Bang
2010-12-15 20:01 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-16 4:00 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2010-12-16 9:21 ` Steinar Bang
2010-12-17 2:49 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2010-12-17 13:42 ` Steinar Bang
2010-12-17 14:54 ` Bjørn Mork
2010-12-17 15:35 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-16 16:26 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-17 2:12 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2010-12-17 16:18 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-14 10:20 ` Richard Riley
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