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Re: Emacs/Mutt and Efail or OpenPGP is safer than S/MIME?


From: Uwe Brauer
Subject: Re: Emacs/Mutt and Efail or OpenPGP is safer than S/MIME?
Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 10:24:13 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>>> "Richard" == Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

   > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
   > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
   > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]

   > If you allow a mail user agent to render HTML for you, you expose
   > yourself to various kinds of surveillance and swindles.  Now, it seems,
   > one of those might be a decryption exploit.

   > Does the exploit depend on Javascript code that the MUI will execute?

Not sure, will ask in the gnupg list. Would be a sort of irony if the
only save email reader (avoiding this sort of attack) were GNU Emacs
+gnus/rmail/vm.

Snowden should have told us this. :-D

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