From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
Cc: adam@alphapapa.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, jschmidt4gnu@vodafonemail.de
Subject: Re: Storing sensitive data indefinitely in variables or buffers: Whether and how to fix?
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2023 10:33:18 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831qiveiwx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v8g7bpxo.fsf@localhost> (message from Ihor Radchenko on Thu, 01 Jun 2023 07:29:55 +0000)
> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
> Cc: adam@alphapapa.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, jschmidt4gnu@vodafonemail.de
> Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2023 07:29:55 +0000
>
> > ... Cryptography, by contrast, is hard, so
> > we should use industry-strength implementations by experts for that,
> > and I think GnuTLS is a good candidate for that part, especially since
> > Emacs without GnuTLS is severely limited anyway (so we could assume
> > "almost everyone" have it).
>
> I agree.
> Is Emacs built with GnuTLS support by default?
GnuTLS will be compiled in by default if it's available, yes.
> Another question about encryption is which secret should be used?
> Should it be configurable by users? Should it be the same for the whole
> secure storage? More granular? May encryption be disabled by users?
This should probably be controlled by some user option.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-01 7:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-30 21:25 Storing sensitive data indefinitely in variables or buffers: Whether and how to fix? Jens Schmidt
2023-05-31 8:02 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-05-31 16:39 ` Adam Porter
2023-05-31 18:17 ` tomas
2023-06-01 6:34 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-06-01 6:51 ` tomas
2023-06-01 7:11 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-05-31 19:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-01 6:48 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-06-01 7:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-01 7:29 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-06-01 7:33 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-06-01 7:34 ` tomas
2023-05-31 19:37 ` Jens Schmidt
2023-06-01 6:42 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-06-01 20:10 ` Jens Schmidt
2023-06-01 20:47 ` Adam Porter
2023-06-02 6:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-04 23:47 ` Adam Porter
2023-06-05 2:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-31 12:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
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