From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A couple of questions and concerns about Emacs network security Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2018 17:48:02 +0300 Message-ID: <83a7r1iy1p.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83po0iuhs7.fsf@gnu.org> <83lgb4tg92.fsf@gnu.org> <83efgusvdw.fsf@gnu.org> <87r2keneb5.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1531061196 22586 195.159.176.226 (8 Jul 2018 14:46:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 14:46:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org, wyuenho@gmail.com, npostavs@gmail.com To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 08 16:46:32 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fcAxL-0005mI-E5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2018 16:46:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37242 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fcAzS-0005jY-Iy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2018 10:48:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45427) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fcAym-0005jL-OT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2018 10:48:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fcAyj-0005VI-2e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2018 10:48:00 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37837) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fcAyi-0005VC-Vj; Sun, 08 Jul 2018 10:47:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2571 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fcAyi-0000ZM-EI; Sun, 08 Jul 2018 10:47:56 -0400 In-reply-to: <87r2keneb5.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sun, 08 Jul 2018 13:43:10 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:227101 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Cc: wyuenho@gmail.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, npostavs@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2018 13:43:10 +0200 > > >> . First, the NEWS entry should tell users how to get the previous > >> (less secure) behavior if they want. I think this also calls for a > >> better documentation of the elements that can appear in > >> network-security-protocol-checks. > >> > >> . The change to gnutls-peer-status is not reflected in its doc string > >> and is not called out in NEWS. > > > > Yes, true. I'll do that later this week. > > That was a ... 12 day week or something. :-) Yeah, gimme 12-day weeks! with 50-hour days on top of that! > I've now pushed these doc fixes, and tried to explain better what these > checks do. Hopefully it's not total gobbledegook -- trying to explain > TLS stuff without resorting to writing acronym soup (that only explains > things to people who already understands this stuff) isn't trivial. :-) It isn't gobbledegook for me, so I guess we are fine. Thanks!