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From: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@upsilon.cc>
To: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: notmuch-mutt: support for duplicate message removal
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 09:21:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120802072120.GB16678@upsilon.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50196548.3030504@fifthhorseman.net>

On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 01:20:08PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> The proposed feature could also exacerbate the previously-discussed
> attack vector [0] whereby a malicious Message-ID collision can be used
> to hide messages from the victim's mailstore.
> 
> [0] id:87k42vrqve.fsf@pip.fifthhorseman.net

I didn't find the reference above but, if you're speaking about the
proposed patch only, I don't think it's the case. The proposed patch
only deduplicate file-identical (up to checksums, that is) messages in
maildirs: a Message-ID collision is not enough to hide a message.

But your comment is very interesting anyhow, as deduplicating on the
basis of Message-ID is indeed something I've discussed with Kevin as
future work. You just provided an extra argument not to enable that by
default.

Cheers.
-- 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-02  7:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-01  8:09 notmuch-mutt: support for duplicate message removal Stefano Zacchiroli
2012-08-01  8:09 ` [PATCH 1/2] Add duplicate message removal for notmuch-mutt Stefano Zacchiroli
2012-08-03  1:00   ` David Bremner
2012-08-01  8:09 ` [PATCH 2/2] debian packaging: new depends for duplicate removals in mutt contrib Stefano Zacchiroli
2012-08-01 11:24 ` notmuch-mutt: support for duplicate message removal Jani Nikula
2012-08-01 16:26   ` Andrei POPESCU
2012-08-01 17:20     ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2012-08-01 19:18       ` Jani Nikula
2012-08-02  7:21       ` Stefano Zacchiroli [this message]
2012-08-02 18:03         ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2012-08-02 19:20           ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2012-08-01 17:54   ` Kevin J. McCarthy
2012-08-01 19:28     ` Jani Nikula

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