From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sascha Wilde Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fix needed for communication with gpg-agent Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:01:52 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87irdzs6pp.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87fy91g1pl.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87wt2dk2rv.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <873b4yt7xx.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87ps82ukz8.fsf@wheatstone.g10code.de> <87slcynii0.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87k5y9olmr.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172260968 1078 80.91.229.12 (23 Feb 2007 20:02:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:02:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Miles Bader , Werner Koch , Daiki Ueno , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 23 21:02:41 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HKgcr-0002WV-DP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:02:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HKgcr-0000SA-7I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:02:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HKgcG-0000Ik-Rx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:02:04 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HKgcF-0000IN-S6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:02:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HKgcF-0000IH-I3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:02:03 -0500 Original-Received: from ns.km1136.keymachine.de ([62.141.58.119] helo=km1136.keymachine.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HKgcC-0001nv-98; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:02:00 -0500 Original-Received: from kenny.sha-bang.de (xdsld234.osnanet.de [212.95.103.234]) (authenticated bits=0) by km1136.keymachine.de (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l1NK1qdO009764; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:01:53 +0100 Original-Received: from wilde by kenny.sha-bang.de with local (Kenny MUA v.0409034.42) ID 1HKgc4-0007Rb-RE; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:01:52 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87k5y9olmr.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Thu\, 22 Feb 2007 17\:47\:24 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:66704 Archived-At: Chong Yidong wrote: > Sascha Wilde writes: > >> I think this suggestion is based on a misunderstanding -- the security >> problems in the current implementation (when not using gpg-agent) has >> nothing to do with caching, it comes form the fact, that emacs writes >> the the passphrase to an temporary file (which is then feed to gpg). > > Maybe I'm confused, but I think this is not the problem. I just had a look at the source, you are right, this problem was fixed -- it seems it is me who was confused... sascha -- Sascha Wilde Well, *my* brain likes to think it's vastly more powerful than any finite Turing machine but it hasn't proven that to me... -- Christopher Koppler in comp.lang.lisp