From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: timotheus <timotheus@tstotts.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, mh-e-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: smime.el: security concerns?
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:08:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1I9UFt-0006fB-PW@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2tzs8b57h.fsf@tstotts.net> (message from timotheus on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:09:54 -0400)
- `call-process' / `call-process-region' (temporary files in /tmp/?)
- environment variable(s) for password passing
- documentation encourages use of un-passworded .pem
- password caching via elisp instead of external agent
- personally avoid, even for tramp + SSH
- the very manual .pem key/crt setup was tricky
We have eliminated the same problems in the rest of Emacs; shouldn't
we fix smime.el to get rid if them too?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-13 23:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-12 3:58 proposed patch to enable MH-E usage of GNU + EPG timotheus
2007-07-12 21:23 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-13 5:31 ` Bill Wohler
2007-07-13 15:14 ` timotheus
2007-07-13 16:13 ` smime.el: security concerns? (was: proposed patch to enable MH-E usage of GNU + EPG) Reiner Steib
2007-07-13 17:09 ` smime.el: security concerns? timotheus
2007-07-13 23:08 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2007-07-13 23:09 ` proposed patch to enable MH-E usage of GNU + EPG Richard Stallman
2007-07-14 0:30 ` timotheus
2007-07-13 23:10 ` Richard Stallman
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