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Re: package.el + DVCS for security and convenience
From: |
Ted Zlatanov |
Subject: |
Re: package.el + DVCS for security and convenience |
Date: |
Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:50:08 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 21:32:02 +0900 "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
wrote:
SJT> Ted Zlatanov writes:
>> Similarly, Emacs needs a secure way to get data in and out of that
>> storage from external files or data. Depending on an external binary
>> tool, *long-term*, to provide this transfer is IMO a poor security
>> decision for a platform such as Emacs.
SJT> Yeah, well, aren't you the guy who put just such an external binary
SJT> tool into Emacs, aka gnutls?
The GnuTLS libraries are not an external binary tool. Do you mean `gnutls-cli'?
SJT> The question is whether dynamic linkage is any safer than using the
SJT> command line interface.
You should ask a security expert.
Ted
- Re: package.el + DVCS for security and convenience, (continued)
- Re: package.el + DVCS for security and convenience, Ted Zlatanov, 2012/12/24
- Re: package.el + DVCS for security and convenience, Xue Fuqiao, 2012/12/24
- Re: package.el + DVCS for security and convenience, Stefan Monnier, 2012/12/24
- Re: package.el + DVCS for security and convenience, Ted Zlatanov, 2012/12/24
- Re: package.el + DVCS for security and convenience, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2012/12/24
- Re: package.el + DVCS for security and convenience, Ted Zlatanov, 2012/12/26
- Re: package.el + DVCS for security and convenience, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2012/12/26
- Re: package.el + DVCS for security and convenience, Xue Fuqiao, 2012/12/27
- Re: package.el + DVCS for security and convenience, Ted Zlatanov, 2012/12/31
- Re: package.el + DVCS for security and convenience, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2012/12/31
- Re: package.el + DVCS for security and convenience,
Ted Zlatanov <=
- Re: package.el + DVCS for security and convenience, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2012/12/31
- Re: package.el + DVCS for security and convenience, Ted Zlatanov, 2012/12/31
- Re: package.el + DVCS for security and convenience, Stefan Monnier, 2012/12/29
- Re: package.el + DVCS for security and convenience, Ted Zlatanov, 2012/12/31
- Re:package.el + DVCS for security and convenience (was: ELPA security), Phil Hagelberg, 2012/12/31
- Re: package.el + DVCS for security and convenience, Ted Zlatanov, 2012/12/31
Re: ELPA security, Stefan Monnier, 2012/12/22