From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Password protection
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:45:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fwwri0r0.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m339sr9mmd.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:17:46 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
LMI> It has debugging value, but since you're not going to be able to ever
LMI> actually see their real value in the Lisp layer, but have to write
LMI> special C functions to do anything with them, I think it has low value
LMI> otherwise. So it mainly has all the drawbacks connected with
LMI> introducing a new type.
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:19:07 +0200 Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> wrote:
MA> Btw: we should not overestimate the kind of protection. Everybody can
MA> install an asynchronous process, send the password object via
MA> process-send-string, and read the plain password in the process
MA> buffer. Everything on Elisp level.
"So, other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?" :)
I still say float it in emacs-devel and let them pick it apart.
Something useful may come out. None of us are security experts.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-30 17:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-28 14:17 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-28 14:43 ` Richard Riley
2010-09-29 14:01 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-28 14:46 ` Julien Danjou
2010-09-28 14:50 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-29 14:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-28 14:47 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-29 14:07 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-29 16:56 ` Charles Philip Chan
2010-09-29 17:15 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-29 19:27 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-29 19:51 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-29 20:35 ` Michael Albinus
2010-09-29 20:58 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-30 3:32 ` Michael Albinus
2010-09-30 15:46 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-30 17:19 ` Michael Albinus
2010-09-30 16:25 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-30 16:43 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-30 16:47 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-30 17:07 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-30 17:17 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-30 17:45 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2010-09-30 17:51 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-30 19:11 ` Michael Albinus
2010-09-30 17:13 ` Michael Albinus
2010-09-30 17:16 ` Michael Albinus
2010-09-29 21:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-25 22:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-05 11:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-07 17:27 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-28 15:02 ` David Engster
2010-09-29 2:28 ` Daniel Pittman
2010-09-29 4:39 ` Richard Riley
2010-09-29 5:58 ` Daniel Pittman
2010-09-29 6:42 ` Richard Riley
2010-09-29 8:54 ` Gijs Hillenius
2010-09-29 9:07 ` Richard Riley
2010-09-29 10:23 ` Gijs Hillenius
2010-09-29 9:51 ` Tassilo Horn
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