From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: package.el + DVCS for security and convenience
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 21:32:02 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ehi6cshp.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ip7i5v2k.fsf@lifelogs.com>
Ted Zlatanov writes:
> I do not plan to be a "security officer," to prove my credentials to
> your satisfaction,
I didn't ask you to prove anything. I was explaining why I was
worried. I still am.
> Similarly, Emacs needs a secure way to get data in and out of that
> storage from external files or data. Depending on an external binary
> tool, *long-term*, to provide this transfer is IMO a poor security
> decision for a platform such as Emacs.
Yeah, well, aren't you the guy who put just such an external binary
tool into Emacs, aka gnutls? The question is whether dynamic linkage
is any safer than using the command line interface.
> Because it will be perfect, obviously.
I haven't seen anything obviously perfect since the Cheryl Tiegs
Sports Illustrated cover. Good luck beating that!<wink/>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-31 12:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 101+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-09 14:41 ELPA security George Kadianakis
2012-12-09 21:00 ` Nic Ferrier
2012-12-21 14:32 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-12-21 22:12 ` Xue Fuqiao
2012-12-22 5:07 ` Bastien
2012-12-22 6:17 ` Xue Fuqiao
2012-12-22 12:34 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-12-22 13:03 ` Bastien
2012-12-22 13:24 ` Bastien
2012-12-22 19:37 ` package.el + DVCS for security and convenience (was: ELPA security) Ted Zlatanov
2012-12-24 12:53 ` package.el + DVCS for security and convenience Nic Ferrier
2012-12-24 12:55 ` Bastien
2012-12-24 13:38 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-12-24 13:39 ` Xue Fuqiao
2012-12-24 16:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-24 17:46 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-12-25 1:03 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-12-26 14:22 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-12-27 3:06 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-12-27 8:56 ` Xue Fuqiao
2012-12-31 11:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-12-31 12:32 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2012-12-31 13:50 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-12-31 16:47 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-12-31 21:41 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-12-29 6:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-31 11:22 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-03 16:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-04 16:05 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-04 18:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-04 19:06 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-05 3:25 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-06 19:20 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-07 2:03 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-07 14:47 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-08 1:44 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-08 15:15 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-08 17:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-08 18:46 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-08 21:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-09 2:37 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-08 2:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-08 14:05 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-01-04 22:21 ` Xue Fuqiao
2012-12-31 20:06 ` Re:package.el + DVCS for security and convenience (was: ELPA security) Phil Hagelberg
2012-12-31 22:50 ` package.el + DVCS for security and convenience Ted Zlatanov
2012-12-22 16:20 ` ELPA security Stefan Monnier
2012-12-26 17:32 ` Paul Nathan
2012-12-31 11:50 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-12-31 12:34 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-12-31 13:39 ` Package signing infrastructure suggestion (was Re: ELPA security) Nic Ferrier
2012-12-31 22:32 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-12-31 23:01 ` Xue Fuqiao
2012-12-31 19:48 ` ELPA security Tom Tromey
2012-12-31 19:57 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-31 22:19 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-12-31 22:15 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-05 16:46 ` Achim Gratz
2013-01-06 19:12 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-07 5:32 ` Paul Nathan
2013-01-07 5:47 ` Jambunathan K
2013-01-07 5:53 ` Paul Nathan
2013-01-07 6:09 ` Jambunathan K
2013-01-07 6:20 ` Paul Nathan
2013-01-07 7:12 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-07 7:18 ` chad
2013-01-07 14:34 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-07 6:57 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-07 14:35 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-07 15:01 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-08 3:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-08 14:47 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-08 16:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-08 17:30 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-08 20:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-08 21:30 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-08 22:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-08 23:30 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-03-12 18:29 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-08 17:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-08 17:59 ` Achim Gratz
2013-01-08 18:37 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-01-08 20:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-16 11:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-16 23:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-17 1:56 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-06-17 7:23 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-17 15:54 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-06-28 15:34 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-17 14:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-17 7:20 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-19 5:02 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-19 12:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-23 11:58 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-23 16:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-28 15:47 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-28 16:28 ` Nic Ferrier
2013-06-28 22:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-24 3:44 ` Daiki Ueno
2013-06-28 15:32 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-28 16:15 ` Daiki Ueno
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