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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>,
	Notmuch Mail <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/18] crypto: actually stash session keys when try-decrypt=true
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 08:53:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tvxu8jwl.fsf@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171025065203.24403-16-dkg@fifthhorseman.net>

Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> writes:

> +        Be aware that the index is likely sufficient to reconstruct
> +        the cleartext of the message itself, so please ensure that the
> +        notmuch message index is adequately protected.  DO NOT USE
> +        ``--try-decrypt=true`` without considering the security of
> +        your index.
>  

This is probably just my ignorance, but doesn't stashing session keys
change this from likely to certain? Is it possible we decrypt thing and
don't get session keys.

> +test_begin_subtest "show the message body of the encrypted message"
> +notmuch dump wumpus
> +output=$(notmuch show wumpus | awk '/^\014part}/{ f=0 }; { if (f) { print $0 } } /^\014part{ ID: 3/{ f=1 }')
> +expected='This is a test encrypted message with a wumpus.'
> +test_expect_equal \
> +    "$output" \
> +    "$expected"

I'd be happier if we didn't further entrench the text format in the test
suite. How hard would it be to use json output (+maybe python?) here? 

>  	*attempted = true;
>  #if (GMIME_MAJOR_VERSION < 3)
> +#if (GMIME_MAJOR_VERSION == 2 && GMIME_MINOR_VERSION == 6 && GMIME_MICRO_VERSION >= 21)
> +    gboolean oldgetsk = g_mime_crypto_context_get_retrieve_session_key (crypto_ctx);
> +    gboolean newgetsk = (decrypt_result);
> +    if (newgetsk != oldgetsk)
> +	/* This could return an error, but we can't do anything about it, so ignore it */
> +	g_mime_crypto_context_set_retrieve_session_key (crypto_ctx, newgetsk, NULL);
> +#endif
>      ret = g_mime_multipart_encrypted_decrypt(part, crypto_ctx,
>  					     decrypt_result, err);
> +#if (GMIME_MAJOR_VERSION == 2 && GMIME_MINOR_VERSION == 6 && GMIME_MICRO_VERSION >= 21)
> +    if (newgetsk != oldgetsk)
> +	g_mime_crypto_context_set_retrieve_session_key (crypto_ctx, oldgetsk, NULL);

I lost track a bit, but now there's at least 2 (maybe 3) repetitions of
this somewhat complicated test, and one more needed for
built_with.session_keys. HAVE_GMIME_SESSION_KEYS is looking better and
better.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-16 16:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-25  6:51 Stashed session keys Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-10-25  6:51 ` [PATCH 01/18] mime-node: handle decrypt_result more safely Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-10-25  6:51 ` [PATCH 02/18] crypto: add _notmuch_crypto_decrypt wrapper function Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-10-25  6:51 ` [PATCH 03/18] crypto: use stashed session-key properties for decryption, if available Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-10-26 19:00   ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-11-14 13:02   ` David Bremner
2017-11-14 13:54     ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-11-15 12:59       ` David Bremner
2017-10-25  6:51 ` [PATCH 04/18] test/corpora: add an encrypted message for index decryption tests Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-10-25  6:51 ` [PATCH 05/18] crypto: Test restore of cleartext index from stashed session keys Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-11-14 13:13   ` David Bremner
2017-11-14 13:58     ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-11-14 14:27       ` David Bremner
2017-10-25  6:51 ` [PATCH 06/18] lib: convert notmuch decryption policy to an enum Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-10-25  6:51 ` [PATCH 07/18] crypto: new decryption policy "auto" Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-11-11 23:14   ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2017-11-12  3:39     ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-11-12 15:26       ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2017-11-14 13:21   ` David Bremner
2017-10-25  6:51 ` [PATCH 08/18] cli/reply: use decryption policy "auto" by default Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-10-25  6:51 ` [PATCH 09/18] cli/show: " Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-10-25  6:51 ` [PATCH 10/18] cli/show, reply: document use of stashed session keys in notmuch-properties Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-10-25  6:51 ` [PATCH 11/18] cli/new, insert, reindex: update documentation for --try-decrypt=auto Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-11-15 20:02   ` David Bremner
2017-10-25  6:51 ` [PATCH 12/18] crypto: record whether an actual decryption attempt happened Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-10-25  6:51 ` [PATCH 13/18] cli/new, insert, reindex: change index.try_decrypt to "auto" by default Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-11-16 12:40   ` David Bremner
2017-11-30  6:16     ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-10-25  6:51 ` [PATCH 14/18] cli/reindex: destroy stashed session keys when --try-decrypt=false Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-10-25  6:52 ` [PATCH 15/18] crypto: actually stash session keys when try-decrypt=true Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-11-16 12:53   ` David Bremner [this message]
2017-11-30 15:57     ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-12-02  1:56       ` David Bremner
2017-10-25  6:52 ` [PATCH 16/18] crypto: add --try-decrypt=nostash to avoid stashing session keys Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-10-25 14:46   ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-11-16 13:02   ` David Bremner
2017-10-25  6:52 ` [PATCH 17/18] docs: clean up documentation about decryption policies Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-10-25  6:52 ` [PATCH 18/18] python: add try_decrypt argument to Database.index_file() Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-11-16 13:06   ` David Bremner
2017-11-30 15:58     ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-11-11  7:56 ` Stashed session keys Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-11-11 23:31 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2017-11-12  3:51   ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-11-12 15:15     ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2017-11-12 18:51     ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-11-15 22:41 ` meskio
2017-11-16 16:03   ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor

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