From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org>
Cc: hniksic@xemacs.org
Subject: Re: Entering passphrase twice when sending PGP signed message
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 01:20:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r82kwa1b.fsf@hniksic.iskon.hr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <iluk78c1ix6.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (Simon Josefsson's message of "Sat, 13 Sep 2003 23:24:05 +0200")
Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
[...]
> So unless someone has a clever idea how this could be solved, I think
> we should consider it a feature.
Your examples are good, but I disagree with the conclusion. Just
because suboptimal behavior is hard to fix doesn't make it a feature.
I'd classify it as a hard-to-fix bug, no more, no less. Typing a
passphrase once per message is annoying. Having to type it twice is
really really bad.
How about remembering the passphrase and reusing it the second time?
The passphrase would be forgotten the moment the mail sending process
is finished. At first that sounds like a violation of passphrase
privacy, but think about it: as long as the string is not copied
around, it's no more dangerous to use it twice and delete it than to
prompt for it twice, deleting it each time around.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-13 23:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-13 13:27 Hrvoje Niksic
2003-09-13 21:24 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-09-13 23:20 ` Hrvoje Niksic [this message]
2003-09-14 0:41 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-09-14 1:22 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2003-09-14 12:05 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-09-14 15:06 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2003-09-14 15:18 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-09-14 17:17 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2003-09-14 21:48 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-09-14 23:03 ` Jesper Harder
2003-09-14 23:15 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-09-15 0:52 ` Jesper Harder
2003-09-15 11:18 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-10-17 18:03 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-10-17 21:44 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-10-17 22:39 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-10-18 0:04 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-10-18 15:49 ` Jesper Harder
2003-10-18 16:26 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2005-10-13 19:48 ` Attachments and security menu (was: Entering passphrase twice when sending PGP signed message) Reiner Steib
2006-04-26 20:30 ` Attachments and security menu Reiner Steib
2003-09-14 21:02 ` Entering passphrase twice when sending PGP signed message Matthias Andree
2003-09-14 21:38 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-09-14 23:12 ` Matthias Andree
2003-09-14 23:49 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-09-15 0:10 ` Matthias Andree
2003-09-13 23:30 ` Jesper Harder
2003-09-14 1:17 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2003-09-14 1:45 ` Jesper Harder
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=m3r82kwa1b.fsf@hniksic.iskon.hr \
--to=hniksic@xemacs.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).