Re: [Enigmail] on/off/default in a menu

2014-06-06 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi Nicolai-- On 06/06/2014 04:39 AM, Nicolai Josuttis wrote: > I am about to make the enigmail UI more convenient/self-explaining. > So, I have the following problem: > I want to give three choices for encryption (and other options): > 1) use default setting and rules > 2) turn encryption on > 3)

Re: [Enigmail] OpenSSL vulnerability

2014-06-06 Thread Robert J. Hansen
GnuPG uses libcurl to do things like access remote URLs. libcurl depends on OpenSSL. fwiw, curl can be built against any of three possible crypto backends Looking back over my "libcurl depends on OpenSSL" sentence, I have no idea why I wrote that sentence that way. Color me chagrined. W

Re: [Enigmail] OpenSSL vulnerability

2014-06-06 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/06/2014 02:40 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > GnuPG uses libcurl to do things like access remote URLs. libcurl > depends on OpenSSL. fwiw, curl can be built against any of three possible crypto backends: OpenSSL, GnuTLS, or NSS (or it can be built without crypto at all, in which case it won'

Re: [Enigmail] OpenSSL vulnerability

2014-06-06 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Enigmail is using GPG, which probably uses OpenSSL, so i think it's also vulnerable to this issue? Not in any meaningful way. GnuPG uses libcurl to do things like access remote URLs. libcurl depends on OpenSSL. So yes, it's possible that a man-in-the-middle could eavesdrop/alter an SSL co

Re: [Enigmail] OpenSSL vulnerability

2014-06-06 Thread Patrick Brunschwig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06.06.14 08:47, Onno Ekker wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday another OpenSSL was published: > https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140605.txt > > Along with it the security advisory came a fix for servers. > > Enigmail is using GPG, which probably u

Re: [Enigmail] OpenSSL vulnerability

2014-06-06 Thread Kosuke Kaizuka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Onno, On Fri, 6 Jun 2014 08:47:32 +0200, Onno Ekker wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday another OpenSSL was published: > https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140605.txt > > Along with it the security advisory came a fix for servers. > > Enigmail is u

[Enigmail] on/off/default in a menu

2014-06-06 Thread Nicolai Josuttis
Hi all, I am about to make the enigmail UI more convenient/self-explaining. So, I have the following problem: I want to give three choices for encryption (and other options): 1) use default setting and rules 2) turn encryption on 3) turn encryption off Unfortunately there is no 3-way-toggle butto