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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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