From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fix needed for communication with gpg-agent
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:04:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lkirpvhr.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1HJmz1-00042d-Ol@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed\, 21 Feb 2007 03\:37\:51 -0500")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> I think he could also walk up to your terminal after you have entered
> the passphrase, and get it out of data remaining in Emacs.
>
> In the discussion when this was raised, people seemed to agree
> it was a problem we should fix. And the only fix was to avoid
> storing passphrases in Emacs.
There is more than one way to fix that.
Since no one seems to have an idea of how to handle the
console/pinentry case, let's just disable password caching on text
terminals, and disabling use of gpg-agent on text terminals, by
default. We can suggest a workaround in the PGG manual, and tell
people to enter a passphrase into pinentry before starting Emacs, if
they want to use PGG with gpg-agent on a text terminal.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-21 12:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-17 20:57 Fix needed for communication with gpg-agent Richard Stallman
2007-02-18 17:42 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-19 23:35 ` Miles Bader
2007-02-20 1:59 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-22 17:31 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-22 17:44 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-22 18:04 ` Werner Koch
2007-02-22 18:40 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-22 22:00 ` Sascha Wilde
2007-02-22 22:47 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-23 20:01 ` Sascha Wilde
2007-02-24 8:28 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-23 22:09 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-23 23:41 ` Sascha Wilde
2007-02-25 4:06 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-25 19:32 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-25 19:50 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-02-25 20:22 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-26 3:27 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-26 10:27 ` Werner Koch
2007-02-27 7:38 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-27 8:53 ` Werner Koch
2007-02-28 2:37 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-23 8:53 ` Werner Koch
2007-02-23 10:27 ` Sascha Wilde
2007-02-23 16:23 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-23 16:47 ` Werner Koch
2007-02-23 19:37 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-23 20:10 ` Sascha Wilde
2007-02-23 22:10 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-23 22:09 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-23 23:03 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-23 17:13 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-02-23 18:30 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-02-23 18:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-24 14:08 ` Miles Bader
2007-02-23 19:35 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-20 13:43 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-20 15:35 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-21 8:37 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-21 12:04 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2007-02-22 17:21 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-20 15:11 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-02-20 15:45 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-21 8:37 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-21 13:11 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-22 7:19 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <E1HJCsN-000541-DO@fencepost.gnu.org>
2007-02-21 22:41 ` Sascha Wilde
2007-02-21 23:15 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-02-22 0:14 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-22 8:04 ` Werner Koch
2007-02-22 12:09 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-02-22 8:13 ` Werner Koch
2007-02-23 10:22 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-23 13:20 ` Werner Koch
2007-02-23 16:40 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-23 22:09 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-23 19:36 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-23 23:25 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-23 23:58 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-02-24 0:19 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-24 0:57 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-02-24 9:58 ` Sascha Wilde
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