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From: timotheus <timotheus@tstotts.net>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: mh-e-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: smime.el: security concerns?
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:09:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2tzs8b57h.fsf@tstotts.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: v9wsx4xowf.fsf_-_@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de


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Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

> On Fri, Jul 13 2007, timotheus wrote:
>
>> ... `smime.el' has some security, feature, and
>> ease-of-use concerns too.
>
> If there are any security concerns wrt `smime.el', please report them.
>
> Bye, Reiner.
> -- 

It is more a matter of opinion, but I once noticed the following with
`smime.el'.

  - `call-process' / `call-process-region' (temporary files in /tmp/?)
  - environment variable(s) for password passing
  - documentation encourages use of un-passworded .pem
  - password caching via elisp instead of external agent
    - personally avoid, even for tramp + SSH
  - the very manual .pem key/crt setup was tricky

Some of them you mention in the comments. EasyPG mentions some of them
in its comments/docs wrt other Emacs cryptography libraries. Not a big
deal, perhaps.

-timotheus

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-13 17:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-12  3:58 proposed patch to enable MH-E usage of GNU + EPG timotheus
2007-07-12 21:23 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-13  5:31   ` Bill Wohler
2007-07-13 15:14     ` timotheus
2007-07-13 16:13       ` smime.el: security concerns? (was: proposed patch to enable MH-E usage of GNU + EPG) Reiner Steib
2007-07-13 17:09         ` timotheus [this message]
2007-07-13 23:08           ` smime.el: security concerns? Richard Stallman
2007-07-13 23:09       ` proposed patch to enable MH-E usage of GNU + EPG Richard Stallman
2007-07-14  0:30         ` timotheus
2007-07-13 23:10     ` Richard Stallman

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