From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 13551@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13551: acknowledged by developer (control message for bug #13551)
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2019 09:18:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1iGjxG-0004Xi-NI@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d0fkursu.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sat, 28 Sep 2019 21:47:13 +0200)
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> Emacs cannot possibly know that when you send to "arthur", that that
> email will eventually end up going to "arthur@gnu.org".
Sure it can. It could get the domain from mail-host-address. We
could also create another variable specifically to control this.
The current behavior, as you described it, is not much better
security. It is unpredictable in practice for the user. However,
I am not sure how much security issue there is in sending A a message
encrypted for B. Nobody can decrypt that message.
I have seen reason to think that the current behavior doesn't match
what you described. I entered "To: rms" and encrypted the message.
It recognized that was me, rms@gnu.org, and encrypted with my key.
It did this even though my key does not list 'rms' with no host name as
an address (as far as I can tell).
gpg --edit-key rms@gnu.org gave me this:
pub 4096R/2C6464AF2A8E4C02 created: 2013-07-20 expires: never usage: SC
...
sub ...
[ultimate] (1). Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
If the key had another address, wouldn't it be listed there?
In addition, after I run the encryption command,
plain 'rms' has been edited into 'rms@gnu.org'. How does it know
to make that change?
--
Dr Richard Stallman
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
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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
2019-09-28 1:32 ` Richard Stallman
2019-09-28 19:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-05 13:18 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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