On 4/11/2014 3:37 PM, Brad Roberts wrote:

Yup, mailman sucks.  But so do all the other list managers out there.
:)  With all the accurate and well placed righteous indignation on this
thread.. surely someone has the drive to actually fix the problem.

I'm actually [indirectly] working on that sort of thing by developing libs intended to make using proper security best-practices far too convenient for anyone to NOT use them. The first part of that:

http://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]

Outside testing and source auditing would be appreciated. I admit I'm currently having a little trouble reconciling @safe with the auto-zeroing password struct. (Maybe Password could somehow just use RAII without RefCounting?)

> I'm
reasonably confident that the mailman team would appreciate the manpower
to tackle the problem. :)


Honestly, I'm not so sure about that:

http://www.list.org/jwzrebuttal.html

The mailman devs appear to be thoroughly convinced their auth system is a good one.

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