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Re: NaCl support for Emacs
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Daniel Colascione |
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Re: NaCl support for Emacs |
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Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:01:48 -0800 |
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On 1/9/12 5:43 PM, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
> SM> I don't think Emacs should reinvent every wheel. GPG does this job well
> SM> and using it means that those files can be decrypted without Emacs.
>
> Calling out to an external process is less secure than using built-in
> encryption primitives. So while in general you're right, in this case
> I'll respectfully disagree. It may be convenient but it's not secure.
If an attacker can read the bytes sent over a pipe between your Emacs
and its GPG subprocess, you've already lost. I'm not sure what
reasonable definition of "secure" you meant to use here.
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- Re: NaCl support for Emacs, (continued)
- Re: NaCl support for Emacs, Ted Zlatanov, 2012/01/09
- Re: NaCl support for Emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2012/01/09
- Re: NaCl support for Emacs, Ted Zlatanov, 2012/01/09
- Re: NaCl support for Emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2012/01/09
- Re: NaCl support for Emacs, Ted Zlatanov, 2012/01/09
- Re: NaCl support for Emacs, Richard Riley, 2012/01/09
- libnettle for Emacs (was: NaCl support for Emacs), Ted Zlatanov, 2012/01/09
- Re: libnettle for Emacs, Richard Riley, 2012/01/09
- Re: NaCl support for Emacs,
Daniel Colascione <=
- Re: NaCl support for Emacs, Ted Zlatanov, 2012/01/10
- Re: NaCl support for Emacs, Ted Zlatanov, 2012/01/10
- Re: NaCl support for Emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2012/01/09
- Re: NaCl support for Emacs, Ted Zlatanov, 2012/01/10
- Re: NaCl support for Emacs, Carsten Mattner, 2012/01/10
- Re: NaCl support for Emacs, Ted Zlatanov, 2012/01/10
- Re: NaCl support for Emacs, Carsten Mattner, 2012/01/10
- Re: NaCl support for Emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2012/01/10
- Re: NaCl support for Emacs, joakim, 2012/01/09
- Re: NaCl support for Emacs (was: GnuTLS for W32), Eli Zaretskii, 2012/01/09