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Re: Network Security Manager merge time?


From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
Subject: Re: Network Security Manager merge time?
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 18:59:16 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/24.4.51 (gnu/linux)

Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:

> I'd rather deprecate it in favor of `nsm-security-level', especially if
> you're OK with the ability to set the level per host or subnet, and per
> service. The `gnutls-verify-error' checks are all 'medium I think.

I can imagine that some people would rather leave all this up to
gnutls...

> (And I'd name or alias that NSM variable to `network-security-level'
> because "nsm" means nothing to a new user, assuming NSM will be loaded
> by default.)

Yes.

> (Oh, and I'd make `nsm-save-host-names' t by default, because your
> worries about information leakage are in the 'high or above security
> level IMO :)

Heh.  But ssh has the same paranoid defaults, I think.

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