Re: [PATCH] NEWS: cleartext indexing

2017-11-23 Thread Antoine Beaupré
Another thing I forgot. You mentioned dedicated LUKS partitions as an example solution. I wonder if you know about the `tomb` and `ctmg` projects which more or less implement those features as commandline tool wrappers. Tomb is a simple shell-script wrapper around cryptsetup to easily create and m

Re: [PATCH] NEWS: cleartext indexing

2017-11-23 Thread Antoine Beaupré
Hi, Sorry for the long delay in my response, but it was a long email to review - there's a lot of stuff in here - so I didn't quite know how to respond. I'll just respond inline but will try to keep it brief. On 2017-11-01 04:13:26, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On Mon 2017-10-30 12:16:25 -0400, A

Re: [PATCH] NEWS: cleartext indexing

2017-10-31 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Mon 2017-10-30 12:16:25 -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > I think that assumption should be made clear in the documentation, > because "security of your index" means nothing to me. Explicitly mention > FDE as an example may be a good start. again, i'm not convinced that "full disk" encryption is

Re: [PATCH] NEWS: cleartext indexing

2017-10-30 Thread Antoine Beaupré
On 2017-10-30 16:47:49, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On Mon 2017-10-30 08:46:12 -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote: >> On 2017-10-22 11:36:34, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >>> + Note that the contents of the index are sufficient to roughly >>> + reconstruct the cleartext of the message itself, so please

Re: [PATCH] NEWS: cleartext indexing

2017-10-30 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Mon 2017-10-30 08:46:12 -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > On 2017-10-22 11:36:34, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >> + Note that the contents of the index are sufficient to roughly >> + reconstruct the cleartext of the message itself, so please ensure >> + that the notmuch index itself is adequately

Re: [PATCH] NEWS: cleartext indexing

2017-10-30 Thread Antoine Beaupré
On 2017-10-22 11:36:34, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > + Note that the contents of the index are sufficient to roughly > + reconstruct the cleartext of the message itself, so please ensure > + that the notmuch index itself is adequately protected. DO NOT USE > + this feature without considering

Re: [PATCH] NEWS: cleartext indexing

2017-10-22 Thread David Bremner
Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes: > give a short summary of cleartext indexing of encrypted e-mail > messages. That's fine and I've pushed it, but as written reindex will need it's own NEWS item. We also need to decide if the instability of subjects under reindex (see one of the currently broken test

[PATCH] NEWS: cleartext indexing

2017-10-22 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
give a short summary of cleartext indexing of encrypted e-mail messages. --- NEWS | 18 ++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c2ebb644..895b7627 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -11,6 +11,24 @@ Out-of-tree builds has been dropped. The same can now be