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From: | Christopher Schmidt |
Subject: | Re: opaque data types |
Date: | Fri, 7 Jun 2013 16:44:18 +0100 (BST) |
Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes: > To store passwords and other sensitive data in a way so they are not > trivial to extract. We've had some previous emacs-devel discussions > about this. Can you please point me to the discussion? Considering we are talking about a regular userspace application with no distributed components I do not see any advantage at all by encrypting passwords in memory. How does interposing a function to extract passwords from a new inbuild type increase security at all? Who's your attacker anyway? Christopher
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