From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Security in the emacs package ecosystem Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 00:18:42 -0500 Message-ID: References: <8735hatt4m.fsf@alshehhi.io> <87fsblfuc6.fsf@localhost> <87wn4gd232.fsf@localhost> <87a61bkzq9.fsf@localhost> <83edqnyz00.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="27506"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: yantar92@posteo.net, stefankangas@gmail.com, husain@alshehhi.io, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 20 06:19:20 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pTya7-0006xS-Rh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2023 06:19:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pTyZZ-0002pE-LT; Mon, 20 Feb 2023 00:18:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pTyZY-0002oq-Gl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2023 00:18:44 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pTyZW-00004v-Uo; Mon, 20 Feb 2023 00:18:42 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=EkGa5VYvLUVU4k5xd6oGW/qsLiPaEt4k7ZM2QyV5v5E=; b=UY4X7XNctN7m apl21BSWdlCMB2Puvuld8JXx8zdGUfUeFTVFl6270sUOkyq5hG4rDTwPAUQiJPDEzatfHNDoAs8wB F4FrWlMaMNRzPAiD0FT4OWy1ovYdsUwXOsBmsIILYtZ2QNe2EJ0cUmUaBs6CI2XOWYFKFG7mV2OwB xapEUQ8NqRMsiizh/s06DfCGMs9/U5FOHJHh5WYRJYZsYYM52Fuus/BwboPqAahwC4vYd90q46NCy bA3PZF6vUNbdxr1Usmfe8aeJjUBFuzR061sYTnb7Zb0d4zNIU/pfrkfbcIVYADojxSE+ZmssKqryC mhf9uf1cXApRts2CGRs1Pw==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pTyZW-00006P-AE; Mon, 20 Feb 2023 00:18:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: <83edqnyz00.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 18 Feb 2023 13:49:35 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:303595 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > Maybe the default should be like t, but only when OpenPGP is available. > We could also display a warning, once, when we detect that OpenPGP is > not available and set the value to allow-unsigned. This way the user > is alerted to the problem and can take action to fix it. Alternatively, we could use Autoconf to check for GPG or PGP when building Emacs. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)