From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] GnuTLS: Support TOFU certificate checking.
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 09:17:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2eguh2xio.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 878ukqq7x6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp
On Thu, 09 Oct 2014 11:43:49 +0900 "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> wrote:
SJT> (2) All data received is squirreled away in a buffer inaccessible to
SJT> Emacs (except for the code that will eventually move it to Lisp,
SJT> of course), and this buffer is "read-locked" until permission is
SJT> received from the user.
I don't think that kind of secure storage and authorization layering is
available in today's Emacs. It would be nice to have it for general
passwords as well. You can sort of hide data from casual dumping by
wrapping it in a closure, but unauthorized code can still extract it
easily.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-09 13:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-07 21:16 [PATCH RFC] GnuTLS: Support TOFU certificate checking Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2014-10-07 21:35 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-07 21:55 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2014-10-08 11:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-08 11:58 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-08 12:10 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2014-10-08 12:18 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-08 12:39 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2014-10-08 12:42 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-08 12:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-08 12:56 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-08 13:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-08 13:06 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-08 13:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-08 13:25 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-08 13:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-08 13:47 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-08 13:59 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2014-10-08 14:05 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-08 14:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-08 14:09 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-08 14:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-08 14:56 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-10-08 15:31 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-08 15:37 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-10-09 2:43 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-09 13:17 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2014-10-08 13:28 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2014-10-08 14:52 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-10-08 15:19 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2014-10-08 15:45 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-10-08 16:09 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2014-10-08 16:52 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-08 17:07 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2014-10-09 13:10 ` Ted Zlatanov
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