From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: POP3 password in plaintext? Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 09:48:48 -0400 Message-ID: References: <878ul1x4kw.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87ppecv3pj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412171375 4963 80.91.229.3 (1 Oct 2014 13:49:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 13:49:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 01 15:49:28 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 1XZKHX-000672-Bu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Oct 2014 15:49:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55527 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZKHW-000544-Ty for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Oct 2014 09:49:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40923) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZKH6-00052i-R1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Oct 2014 09:49:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZKGw-00056u-PF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Oct 2014 09:49:00 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:40433) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZKGw-00056q-IT; Wed, 01 Oct 2014 09:48:50 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArgGAIDvNVNFxKjo/2dsb2JhbABZgwaDSsAzAQmBFxd0giUBAQEBAgFWIwULCzAEEhQYDSSIBAjSGReOegcYhCABA6kZgWqDTCE X-IPAS-Result: ArgGAIDvNVNFxKjo/2dsb2JhbABZgwaDSsAzAQmBFxd0giUBAQEBAgFWIwULCzAEEhQYDSSIBAjSGReOegcYhCABA6kZgWqDTCE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.97,753,1389762000"; d="scan'208";a="91401757" Original-Received: from 69-196-168-232.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.168.232]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 01 Oct 2014 09:48:49 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id C87BA4821; Wed, 1 Oct 2014 09:48:48 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87ppecv3pj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Wed, 01 Oct 2014 13:00:56 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:174906 Archived-At: > I liked Ted's suggestion about providing modeline indicators. I'd much rather just signal an error if a password is sent in the clear. And then provide some configuration option to indicate when it's OK to send the password in the clear on this connection. Stefan