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authorDaniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>2017-12-08 01:24:01 -0500
committerDavid Bremner <david@tethera.net>2017-12-08 08:08:47 -0400
commit29648a137c5807135ab168917b4a51d5e19e51c2 (patch)
treeea06354db54289171b1cc46fba3f7314f515516b /bindings/python
parent6a9626a2fdddf6115bcf97982fd10053bf48e942 (diff)
crypto: actually stash session keys when decrypt=true
If you're going to store the cleartext index of an encrypted message, in most situations you might just as well store the session key. Doing this storage has efficiency and recoverability advantages. Combined with a schedule of regular OpenPGP subkey rotation and destruction, this can also offer security benefits, like "deletable e-mail", which is the store-and-forward analog to "forward secrecy". But wait, i hear you saying, i have a special need to store cleartext indexes but it's really bad for me to store session keys! Maybe (let's imagine) i get lots of e-mails with incriminating photos attached, and i want to be able to search for them by the text in the e-mail, but i don't want someone with access to the index to be actually able to see the photos themselves. Fret not, the next patch in this series will support your wacky uncommon use case.
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