From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 240F0431FBC for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2014 13:31:56 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.3 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3] autolearn=disabled Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id YUNm+e8MJSG5 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2014 13:31:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from outgoing-mail.its.caltech.edu (outgoing-mail.its.caltech.edu [131.215.239.19]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36EEC431FC2 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2014 13:31:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fire-doxen.imss.caltech.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire-doxen-postvirus (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDD672E50DD1; Mon, 7 Apr 2014 13:31:50 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Scanned: at Caltech-IMSS on fire-doxen by amavisd-new Received: from finestructure.net (gwave-217.ligo.caltech.edu [131.215.114.217]) (Authenticated sender: jrollins) by fire-doxen-submit (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB2672E50E3F; Mon, 7 Apr 2014 13:31:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by finestructure.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2D4D4600FF; Mon, 7 Apr 2014 13:31:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Jameson Graef Rollins To: Jeremy Nickurak Subject: Re: Feature suggestion. Indexing encrypted mail? In-Reply-To: References: <86k3b3ybo6.fsf@someserver.somewhere> <878urj1z3j.fsf@maritornes.cs.unb.ca> <87txa7pp8z.fsf@servo.finestructure.net> <20140406091516.GG26903@vilya.m0g.net> <5341D252.90405@fifthhorseman.net> <867g71y327.fsf@someserver.somewhere> <87ob0dnndk.fsf@servo.finestructure.net> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.17+174~gaa1f476 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 13:31:45 -0700 Message-ID: <87d2gsop8u.fsf@servo.finestructure.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Cc: Notmuch Mailing List , Daniel Kahn Gillmor , Daniel Kahn Gillmor X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 20:31:56 -0000 --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain On Mon, Apr 07 2014, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: > Nonetheess, if you can tell from the index that a given message contains > the words "hotel" "wine" "wife" "secret" and "rendezvous", you can infer a > *lot* about the contents of encrypted contents of the message. Of course. Given that the content of the message will be stored unencrypted in the db, indexing encrypted messages is potentially a foot gun. If we were to enable a feature like this, it would definitely be a user-beware situation. I don't see any way around that. jamie. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJTQwsyAAoJEO00zqvie6q86ywP/i0qNabQugK9HptgO8ZhxaIh ttyLC7Opi8iiwiP8Glkoa+8xEZ0FJHmK/Q5iK1km971SeGl5cuwYSC+n8dZ5hzi8 MSjFKWlp5R/BL8CkL8QLF1JPJ66aOOsG7LoHENBqWDuJg3MAJAqvet2NYz60F0Gd 9KvfLe5RSiuNHqnEXzI3NRkyc0y5+DD97a+K/2Kjma1YX1phdqdUEoYlBsZ9PQlH sJh/pzvVO+r7G/F1x/iYji7oMkSh4S8sF4WLED27mq7gFKHHd249YHCKFZVw50/T GHE60OO/9JUa1kYBcsnCEfJ09Ogy25J960R7/Rh9v4sJMg2CRYFUY7PVBJn0zGgr ddkm4v5zt6VcOw1nfGRduv+Y69u8haKPSILiMdP9385LDaI/zoUrcSXIbbUo4v0O PPPYfah0fnl/zsceU7UgzHUBjoIsL+DdZFiHNBJUGsn3jDQsGDUbgaHVUULjj25Y +gzAR0AniCoRVmm8KA6e8bgZyIzj/liYnW3f3g5je+Aen9Ruk0Vcn0CHpBGvn4vZ yjPyjzxbVUmHnhDFTPOgjhbi23vzEVJ2En29dPtupiC7qF7EFxqarSUvl8V+E7QL qetY7wXfsQQdEKn7KYE+mYFvIVelw0z+MJ4r7bMoO7ErEzxmRl1g59SAdPs2su1V vSJ4mqUXy6Kbs0btHwhS =WQ7K -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--