From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Additional network security Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 22:54:24 +0100 Message-ID: <87r3vwaajz.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> References: <87lhmkja3h.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <871tobmndd.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87oarfl7d1.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418939697 5223 80.91.229.3 (18 Dec 2014 21:54:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 21:54:57 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 18 22:54:52 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1j22-0000Wu-Rd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2014 22:54:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55864 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1j22-0003gI-Dm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2014 16:54:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47212) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1j1u-0003g8-Ee for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2014 16:54:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1j1p-0003r6-5b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2014 16:54:42 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:44062) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1j1o-0003pB-Uc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2014 16:54:37 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1j1m-0000SV-Uu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2014 22:54:35 +0100 Original-Received: from manz-5f7484f9.pool.mediaways.net ([95.116.132.249]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2014 22:54:34 +0100 Original-Received: from Reiner.Steib by manz-5f7484f9.pool.mediaways.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2014 22:54:34 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: manz-5f7484f9.pool.mediaways.net X-Face: P05mdcZT&lL[-s2=mw~RsllZ0zZAb?vdE}.s 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:180297 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Ted Zlatanov writes: > >> How about extending the GnuTLS priority string to also specify the NSM >> level, DH bits, etc? So the user would say "NORMAL:NSM(medium,dh=1024)" >> and we'd cut out all the NSM bits before passing it on to GnuTLS. If >> there's nothing in the priority string, we'd look at >> `network-security-level', that would be the out-of-the-box use case. > > I'm not sure we need to allow this to be customised at this fine-grained > level. Does Firefox allow that, for instance? At least there's security.tls.version.min, security.ssl3.ecdhe_ecdsa_rc4_128_sha, and several other security.* prefs. Dunno how these relate to Ted's suggestion. Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/