From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gnus-cloud native GnuTLS AEAD support
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 16:05:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831sjmn9ia.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a7yl51r1.fsf@lifelogs.com> (message from Ted Zlatanov on Thu, 14 Dec 2017 00:15:14 -0500)
> From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 00:15:14 -0500
>
> I've pushed scratch/tzz/gnus-cloud-aead with a proposed implementation
> to use the native GnuTLS AEAD symmetric ciphers for gnus-cloud storage.
> While this specifically is for IMAP articles, the implementation can
> encrypt/decrypt any unibyte text data using AEAD ciphers.
>
> Reasons to implement it this way:
>
> * no dependency on external tools
> * low risk: optional storage method for non-critical data
>
> TODO:
>
> * move the new code out to a library, either in core or in the GNU ELPA
> * document, factor some things out
> * add a checker function to read-passwd for min/max etc. requirements
>
> It worked well in my testing. Comments and suggestions welcome.
Did you test this code with non-ASCII text? There are some tricky
shenanigans with multibyte text in the associated gnutls.c functions,
and you are using base64-encode-region, which will signal an error if
any non-ASCII characters are found in the region it is invoked on. So
I'd suggest to have that tested.
And then there are the TODOs, of course.
Thanks.
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