From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/58186 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: authinfo/netrc file encryption status -- GnuPG Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 19:06:33 -0400 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <87hdrlywau.fsf@jbms.ath.cx> References: <4nwu0u8zht.fsf@lifelogs.com> <4noem1tmmp.fsf@lifelogs.com> <4nk6wlzbc2.fsf@koz.bwh.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1091488144 12443 80.91.224.253 (2 Aug 2004 23:09:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 23:09:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6727@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Aug 03 01:08:55 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BrlvK-0001Lu-00 for ; Tue, 03 Aug 2004 01:08:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Brltu-0003hU-00; Mon, 02 Aug 2004 18:07:26 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Brltn-0003hO-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 02 Aug 2004 18:07:19 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Brltk-0000PK-Nj for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 02 Aug 2004 18:07:16 -0500 Original-Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.198.35]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 478EB3A0026 for ; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 18:07:15 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from jay.local.invalid (h00105aa5eefe.ne.client2.attbi.com[24.91.123.131]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2004080223063501300n69dve>; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 23:07:13 +0000 Original-Received: by jay.local.invalid (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 697E73A5D2E; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 19:06:34 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring In-Reply-To: <4nk6wlzbc2.fsf@koz.bwh.harvard.edu> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "30 Jul 2004 12:52:45 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58186 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58186 "Ted Zlatanov" writes: > [snip] > According to the Emacs docs you should use make-temp-file for safety, > but I'll go with make-temp-name for simplicity because I don't expect > the risk from it to be significant (I remove the temp file afterwards > in any case). If anyone disagrees, let me know. Since there is a security risk in using `make-temp-name', perhaps consider using `make-temp-name' only when `make-temp-file' is unavailable, perhaps by defining `make-temp-file' for XEmacs in gnus-xmas.el. > [snip] -- Jeremy Maitin-Shepard