From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fix needed for communication with gpg-agent
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 03:37:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1HJmz1-00042d-Ol@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873b50g7um.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (message from Chong Yidong on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:35:29 -0500)
> We need to solve this problem one way or another now, because we
> decided to fix a certain security hole by telling users to use
> gpg-agent. We don't need the most elegant possible fix, but we
> need something reasonable to use.
Has anyone ever said that not using gpg-agent causes a security hole
(except for you)?
What a silly question! I am not an expert on security, so such a
concern idea would NEVER originate from me. Thus problem was
described in this list by others, a few months ago.
Basically, the worry is that someone could somehow
change the Elisp code in your Emacs session so that it records your
passphrase as you are entering it. This is a non-zero but minuscule
risk.
I think he could also walk up to your terminal after you have entered
the passphrase, and get it out of data remaining in Emacs.
In the discussion when this was raised, people seemed to agree
it was a problem we should fix. And the only fix was to avoid
storing passphrases in Emacs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-21 8:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-17 20:57 Fix needed for communication with gpg-agent Richard Stallman
2007-02-18 17:42 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-19 23:35 ` Miles Bader
2007-02-20 1:59 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-22 17:31 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-22 17:44 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-22 18:04 ` Werner Koch
2007-02-22 18:40 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-22 22:00 ` Sascha Wilde
2007-02-22 22:47 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-23 20:01 ` Sascha Wilde
2007-02-24 8:28 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-23 22:09 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-23 23:41 ` Sascha Wilde
2007-02-25 4:06 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-25 19:32 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-25 19:50 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-02-25 20:22 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-26 3:27 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-26 10:27 ` Werner Koch
2007-02-27 7:38 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-27 8:53 ` Werner Koch
2007-02-28 2:37 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-23 8:53 ` Werner Koch
2007-02-23 10:27 ` Sascha Wilde
2007-02-23 16:23 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-23 16:47 ` Werner Koch
2007-02-23 19:37 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-23 20:10 ` Sascha Wilde
2007-02-23 22:10 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-23 22:09 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-23 23:03 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-23 17:13 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-02-23 18:30 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-02-23 18:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-24 14:08 ` Miles Bader
2007-02-23 19:35 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-20 13:43 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-20 15:35 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-21 8:37 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2007-02-21 12:04 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-22 17:21 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-20 15:11 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-02-20 15:45 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-21 8:37 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-21 13:11 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-22 7:19 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <E1HJCsN-000541-DO@fencepost.gnu.org>
2007-02-21 22:41 ` Sascha Wilde
2007-02-21 23:15 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-02-22 0:14 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-22 8:04 ` Werner Koch
2007-02-22 12:09 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-02-22 8:13 ` Werner Koch
2007-02-23 10:22 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-23 13:20 ` Werner Koch
2007-02-23 16:40 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-23 22:09 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-23 19:36 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-23 23:25 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-23 23:58 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-02-24 0:19 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-24 0:57 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-02-24 9:58 ` Sascha Wilde
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