From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Oleksii Shevchuk <alxchk@gmail.com>,
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
13374-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13374: 24.?; open-gnutls-stream insecurity
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 17:50:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r499ixj4.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvd2xf7glb.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:06:08 -0500")
On Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:06:08 -0500 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>> It should default to nil (in other words, we'll ship 24.3 with the same
>>> insecure behavior it has right now). But we can recommend to the users
>>> to turn it on, and see how well it works in practice, and write the
>>> necessary prompts and customization logic that Lars outlined.
>> I think we should just leave things as is for 24.3, since it's too close
>> to release, and fix this properly for 24.5.
SM> I tend to agree, although, if the patch is sufficiently trivial, it
SM> could be accepted (e.g. define a new custom var, with nil default value
SM> and splice it somewhere in the code where nil makes no difference).
>> Instituting an option like that (which will have to be abandoned
>> later) as a stop-gap I feel isn't all that helpful.
SM> If the option will have to be abandoned, then it's indeed a loser, but
SM> I thought the idea is that this option will stay and the added code in
SM> 24.4 will "simply" be handling errors more cleverly and prompting the
SM> user to update this option on-the-fly.
This is done for the upcoming release. Marking this as done.
Ted
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-18 22:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-07 10:20 bug#13374: 24.?; open-gnutls-stream insecurity Oleksii Shevchuk
2013-01-08 1:05 ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-08 4:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-01-08 4:27 ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-08 4:42 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-01-08 14:43 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-08 14:49 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-01-08 15:24 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-08 17:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-12-18 22:50 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
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