From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general,gmane.mail.mh-e.devel Subject: smime.el: security concerns? (was: proposed patch to enable MH-E usage of GNU + EPG) Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:13:36 +0200 Message-ID: References: <878x9k50ow.fsf@olgas.newt.com> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1184345101 27831 80.91.229.12 (13 Jul 2007 16:45:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:45:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org, mh-e-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: timotheus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 13 18:45:00 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I9OGJ-0006ZT-T7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:45:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I9OGJ-0006Dz-74 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:44:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I9OGA-0006Aw-0V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:44:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I9OG8-0006AZ-HE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:44:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I9OG8-0006AU-CF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:44:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.1.11]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I9OG7-0005dy-R3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:44:48 -0400 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.10.123]) by mail.uni-ulm.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l6DGicca010382; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:44:38 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from localhost (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.10.123]) by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF3A911A28; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:44:37 +0200 (CEST) X-Face: P05mdcZT&lL[-s2=mw~RsllZ0zZAb?vdE}.s, mh-e-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (timotheus@tstotts.net's message of "Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:14:25 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-DCC--Metrics: poseidon 104; Body=4 Fuz1=4 Fuz2=4 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-detected-kernel: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:74722 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:64936 gmane.mail.mh-e.devel:12675 Archived-At: On Fri, Jul 13 2007, timotheus wrote: > FYI, MH-E of the Emacs CVS head already supports S/MIME through the > `smime.el' library that uses openssl. Remember that MH-E uses Gnus > MML to provide the security. You just change the default MML method > to "smime" instead of "pgpmime". However, multiple identity support > is lacking, and `smime.el' has some security, feature, and > ease-of-use concerns too. If there are any security concerns wrt `smime.el', please report them. Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/