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From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Subject: Re: authinfo encryption through netrc.el works now
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 20:07:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ilusmb09m2y.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4nu0vg17t3.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "6 Aug 2004 13:43:20 -0400")

"Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On 5 Aug 2004, tzz@lifelogs.com wrote:
>
> On Wed, 04 Aug 2004, jas@extundo.com wrote:
>
>>> If the password is cached directly, and if the user type the wrong
>>> password, that logic wouldn't work, and it would infloop steps 1, 2,
>>> and 3.
>
> We're decoding a file, not connecting to the server - this is a lower
> level of interaction.  I now remove failed *encryption* passwords, but
> I can't (and shouldn't) care what happens with the contents of the
> files once they are decoded.  So, I think, the right things will
> happen now.

Yup.  Handling bad passwords read from .authinfo should be taken care
of by the code using the password.



  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-06 18:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-21 18:25 authinfo/netrc file encryption status -- GnuPG Steven E.Harris
2004-07-23 16:22 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-07-23 17:16   ` Steven E. Harris
2004-07-23 17:00     ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-07-23 21:39   ` Steven E. Harris
2004-07-27 16:56     ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-07-27 18:12       ` Steven E. Harris
2004-07-30 16:52         ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-08-02 23:06           ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2004-08-03 17:09             ` Ted Zlatanov
     [not found]           ` <jk465858idw.fsf@W003275.na.alarismed.com>
     [not found]             ` <4n4qnl8mnw.fsf@lifelogs.com>
     [not found]               ` <jk4ekmp1iym.fsf@W003275.na.alarismed.com>
2004-08-03 17:11                 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-08-03 21:47                   ` Steven E. Harris
2004-08-04 16:54                     ` authinfo encryption through netrc.el works now (was: authinfo/netrc file encryption status -- GnuPG) Ted Zlatanov
2004-08-04 17:55                       ` authinfo encryption through netrc.el works now Simon Josefsson
2004-08-05 22:09                         ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-08-06 17:43                           ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-08-06 18:07                             ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2004-08-04 18:37                       ` Steven E. Harris
2004-08-05 22:05                         ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-08-05 22:59                           ` Steven E. Harris
2004-08-06 17:45                             ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-08-06 18:18                               ` Simon Josefsson
2004-08-06 21:57                                 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-08-04 22:55                   ` authinfo/netrc file encryption status -- GnuPG Steven E. Harris
2004-08-06 17:31                     ` Ted Zlatanov

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