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: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 09:40:56 +0300 Message-ID: <83po0iuhs7.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1529735969 18282 195.159.176.226 (23 Jun 2018 06:39:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 06:39:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: larsi@gnus.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, wyuenho@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Noam Postavsky Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 23 08:39:25 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 1fWcCi-0004gI-1N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 08:39:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37340 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fWcEp-0002me-Da for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 02:41:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42252) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fWcE8-0002mS-5a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 02:40:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fWcE3-0007w8-9V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 02:40:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36326) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fWcE3-0007w4-5m; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 02:40:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1649 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fWcE2-0002oN-8N; Sat, 23 Jun 2018 02:40:46 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Noam Postavsky on Fri, 22 Jun 2018 22:17:56 -0400) 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:226606 Archived-At: > From: Noam Postavsky > Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 22:17:56 -0400 > Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen , > Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong , > Emacs developers > > On 22 June 2018 at 18:43, Paul Eggert wrote: > > On 06/22/2018 03:00 PM, Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong wrote: > >> > >> 1. Can we update the default network security settings? > > > > > > Yes, I would think so, in the master branch. As you say, the current > > defaults are inappropriate for today's users. > > Can we bump gnutls-min-prime-bits to 1024 on the release branch? No, I don't think so. Changing these settings needs a prolonged testing period to uncover any subtle problems with non-conforming servers that users must be able to access, and such testing is unlikely to happen on emacs-26 before the next bug-fix release. If we change this now on emacs-26, we should probably not release Emacs 26.2 before a year goes by.