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: NaCl support for Emacs Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:01:23 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87boqh20ha.fsf@lifelogs.com> <871urc46c9.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <739bsoysp.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> <87ty47r5yt.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87k452p5u3.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87liphne9e.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <87fwfon7gl.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87hb04icxl.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87pqesgwnj.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87pqerg4df.fsf@lifelogs.com> <877h0zfz12.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1326225706 32726 80.91.229.12 (10 Jan 2012 20:01:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:01:46 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 10 21:01:42 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rkht4-0002WE-CP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:01:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58938 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rkht3-0004so-TH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:01:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:45578) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rkhsw-0004r5-4T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:01:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rkhsq-0006VS-H4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:01:30 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:48250) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rkhsq-0006VO-Bd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:01:24 -0500 Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id q0AK1N8Q026820; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:01:23 -0500 Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 8651BB40FA; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:01:23 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <877h0zfz12.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:49:29 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Level: X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0.2 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 2 Rules triggered GEN_SPAM_FEATRE=0.2, RV4097=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.2.0.9309 : core <4097> : streams <718541> : uri <1044353> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 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:147573 Archived-At: > Not necessarily. But even if it is, the attacker has to know where to > find the private key and run non-trivial code to use it. The risk is > smaller than plopping the secret data in plain view. I call that "obfuscation". The non-trivial code is not a deterrent either because it comes with Emacs ;-) Stefan