Re: Additional network security

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> Given this precedent, I think it would make sense to offer some
> fine-grained control over NSM checks as well, similar to
> `gnutls-verify-error' as I mentioned.  We've gone Lispy with the NSM
> configuration, but if we were consistent with the GnuTLS approach, the
> NSM tuning would be simply a string like "paranoid:-crazy" (paranoid but
> not crazy, heh heh).  This is still possible:
>
> * map a symbol to its symbol-name
> * parse NSM security levels like GnuTLS priority strings
> * allow setting these strings per host regex
> * PROFIT
>
> WDYT?

I think we should require 100 users demanding this before we implement
it.  :-)

But as for the defaults, do you agree with putting RC4, SSL<TLS1.0 and
low bits on `high'?  

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