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authorDavid Edmondson <dme@dme.org>2015-08-16 16:40:37 +0100
committerDavid Edmondson <dme@dme.org>2015-08-16 16:40:37 +0100
commitbf7794c36284ce9c5b6c015a30bbda4130512294 (patch)
treed6b56099269227b2bbaf6f688d8faf5bf13174b1
parentabba59336d35182deec1a20deca0b258b14b9352 (diff)
Add comments about decryption in the UI rather than CLI.
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@@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ Security and privacy concerns
* integration with other keyrings
* reproducible builds:
[sphinx man pages](https://reproducible.debian.net/rb-pkg/testing/amd64/notmuch.html)
+* decryption happens in the CLI rather than the UI
+ * when using the UI and the CLI on different machines (so called "remote" mode), this leads to some undesirable and odd behaviour:
+ * decrypted content is passed across a potentially insecure channel (though usually ssh)
+ * the CLI needs access to keys, which can be awkward or impossible
Usability as security?
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