From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org>
Cc: 9113@debbugs.gnu.org, Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Subject: bug#9113: 24.0.50; auth-sources: .authinfo versus .authinfo.gpg
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:18:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y5spdv0k.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260.19768.553254.135471@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (Roland Winkler's message of "Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:32:08 -0600")
"Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org> writes:
> But then it appears to me that elsewhere there is a problem:
>
> Why is it necessary that Emacs reads this file three gazillion
> times? I would assume: reading the encrypted file once and holding
> the content in memory cannot be more unsecure than storing the
> sensitive information in an unencrypted file.
Yes, that's more secure. Now that you mention it, perhaps we did fix
the aggressive password prompting? I seem to remember adding a cache at
some point...
Anyway, having to enter a password for (say) sending email, even if your
SMTP server isn't password-protected (as you have to do with
.authinfo.gpg) isn't particularly ideal.
So I think the .authinfo.gpg concept isn't a good thing. (But
encrypting tokens in the .authinfo file might be.)
And perhaps the password token in .authinfo should always be obscured,
at least, to avoid accidentally spilling the passwords (visually) if you
do a grep .* or something. (This is what all the other
password-hoarding applications like Firefox, Chrome, etc do by default.)
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-30 16:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-18 3:08 bug#9113: 24.0.50; auth-sources: .authinfo versus .authinfo.gpg Roland Winkler
2012-01-25 20:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-01-26 2:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-26 15:32 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-01-26 17:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-26 17:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-26 17:53 ` Achim Gratz
2012-01-26 20:01 ` bug#9113: 24.0.50; auth-sources: .authinfo versus .authinfo.gpg, bug#9113: 24.0.50; auth-sources: .authinfo versus .authinfo.gpg, " Ted Zlatanov
2012-01-26 21:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-30 16:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-30 22:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-30 22:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-31 9:00 ` Michael Albinus
2012-01-31 17:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-13 17:35 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-02-13 18:35 ` Michael Albinus
2012-01-27 1:47 ` bug#9113: 24.0.50; auth-sources: .authinfo versus .authinfo.gpg, bug#9113: 24.0.50; auth-sources: .authinfo versus .authinfo.gpg, " Daiki Ueno
2012-01-27 16:23 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-01-29 9:50 ` Daiki Ueno
2012-01-30 16:33 ` bug#9113: 24.0.50; auth-sources: .authinfo versus .authinfo.gpg, bug#9113: 24.0.50; auth-sources: .authinfo versus .authinfo.gpg, " Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-31 6:55 ` Chong Yidong
2012-01-31 11:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-03 17:14 ` Kevin Rodgers
2012-01-31 11:11 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-01-31 11:37 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-13 17:38 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-01-28 8:47 ` Roland Winkler
2012-01-28 19:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-28 19:32 ` Roland Winkler
2012-01-30 16:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2012-01-30 18:49 ` Roland Winkler
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