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bug#13551: acknowledged by developer (control message for bug #13551)
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#13551: acknowledged by developer (control message for bug #13551) |
Date: |
Fri, 27 Sep 2019 18:12:22 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> 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. ]]]
>
> > I don't think any security-related software should be guessing based on
> > incomplete email addresses. As far as I can tell, it requires a
> > complete match, which I guess means you have a key for "martin" (without
> > a domain name) in your key ring.
>
> That is totally unpredictable _for the user sending a reply_.
> There are various possible ok things to do, but not that.
>
> Please make this case do something predictable.
I'm not sure I understand. I think it does do something completely
predictable -- choose the key ring entry that matches what's in your
"From" header. No guessing involved.
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