From: Christopher Schmidt <christopher@ch.ristopher.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: opaque data types
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 16:44:18 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87txlancx8@ch.ristopher.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bo7iqad2.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:11:21 -0400")
Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> To store passwords and other sensitive data in a way so they are not
> trivial to extract. We've had some previous emacs-devel discussions
> about this.
Can you please point me to the discussion?
Considering we are talking about a regular userspace application with no
distributed components I do not see any advantage at all by encrypting
passwords in memory. How does interposing a function to extract
passwords from a new inbuild type increase security at all? Who's
your attacker anyway?
Christopher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-07 15:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-04 22:44 plist-based package.el (was Re: cl-defstruct-based package.el, now with ert tests and no external tar!) Daniel Hackney
2013-06-04 23:01 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-06-05 14:53 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-05 17:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-05 17:56 ` Drew Adams
2013-06-05 18:06 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-06 9:30 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-06-06 12:51 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-07 3:07 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-06-07 13:03 ` opaque data types (was: plist-based package.el (was Re: cl-defstruct-based package.el, now with ert tests and no external tar!)) Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-07 13:27 ` opaque data types Christopher Schmidt
2013-06-07 14:11 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-07 15:44 ` Christopher Schmidt [this message]
2013-06-07 16:01 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-08 9:19 ` Christopher Schmidt
2013-06-10 3:56 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-07 16:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-07 17:48 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-08 6:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-06-08 6:28 ` opaque data types [revise and resend] Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-06-10 4:00 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-05 1:34 ` plist-based package.el (was Re: cl-defstruct-based package.el, now with ert tests and no external tar!) Stefan Monnier
2013-06-06 1:31 ` Daniel Hackney
2013-06-08 6:47 ` Rand User
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