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From: micah anderson <micah@riseup.net>
To: Ruben Pollan <meskio@sindominio.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: indexing encrypted messages (was:  OpenPGP support)
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:41:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873a2gbd09.fsf@lillypad.riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100108092121.GE7139@blackspot>

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On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 10:21:21 +0100, Ruben Pollan <meskio@sindominio.net> wrote:
> On 15:56, Fri 08 Jan 10, martin f krafft wrote:
> > How about indexing GPG-encrypted messages?
> 
> I think that would be security hole. You should not store the
> encrypted messages on a decrypted database. A solution whould be to
> encrypt as well the xapian DB, but I think is too complex for the use.

Would you consider it a security hole if you stored your database on
encrypted media (such as on-disk block encryption)?

I know that sup does this, when it ran over my mail store, it would
trigger my gpg agent so that it could decrypt the encrypted
messages. This was annoying because this happened every time it ran,
which meant that unless I had used gpg recently, my agent would pop up
and ask me for my passphrase, which was often.

The way Mutt provides this functionality is by decrypting only when you
perform the search itself.

micah

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-09 21:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-23 13:00 OpenPGP support Jameson Graef Rollins
2009-11-26  6:01 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2009-11-26  7:08   ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2009-11-26 18:31     ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2009-11-26 19:12       ` Carl Worth
2010-01-08  2:56   ` indexing encrypted messages (was: OpenPGP support) martin f krafft
2010-01-08  8:09     ` Mike Hommey
2010-01-08  9:12       ` martin f krafft
2010-01-08  9:21     ` Ruben Pollan
2010-01-08 10:24       ` martin f krafft
2010-01-08 19:41       ` micah anderson [this message]
2010-01-10 12:42         ` Ruben Pollan
2010-01-08 10:37     ` James Westby
2010-01-14 10:03       ` Olly Betts
2009-11-26 18:41 ` OpenPGP support Carl Worth
2009-11-26 23:01   ` Keith Packard
2009-11-28  4:06     ` Carl Worth
2009-11-29 19:44   ` Jameson Graef Rollins

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