From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: 13551@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13551: acknowledged by developer (control message for bug #13551)
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 18:12:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pnjliuqh.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1iDo3e-000599-Os@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 27 Sep 2019 07:05:06 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
> > I don't think any security-related software should be guessing based on
> > incomplete email addresses. As far as I can tell, it requires a
> > complete match, which I guess means you have a key for "martin" (without
> > a domain name) in your key ring.
>
> That is totally unpredictable _for the user sending a reply_.
> There are various possible ok things to do, but not that.
>
> Please make this case do something predictable.
I'm not sure I understand. I think it does do something completely
predictable -- choose the key ring entry that matches what's in your
"From" header. No guessing involved.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-27 16:12 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <87k19z0xut.fsf@gnus.org>
2013-01-25 21:32 ` bug#13551: 24.3.50; epa-mail-encrypt chooses wrong key Richard Stallman
2019-09-23 16:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
[not found] ` <handler.13551.C.156925686512740.notifdonectrl.0@debbugs.gnu.org>
2019-09-27 11:05 ` bug#13551: acknowledged by developer (control message for bug #13551) Richard Stallman
2019-09-27 16:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-09-28 1:32 ` Richard Stallman
2019-09-28 19:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-05 13:18 ` Richard Stallman
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