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Re: What level to put STARTTLS certificates
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Ted Zlatanov |
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Re: What level to put STARTTLS certificates |
Date: |
Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:01:58 -0500 |
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On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:29:28 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
wrote:
LMI> ;;(setq smtpmail-starttls-credentials
LMI> ;; '(("YOUR SMTP HOST" 25 "~/.my_smtp_tls.key"
"~/.my_smtp_tls.cert")))
LMI> But it strikes me that this is probably on the totally wrong level. I
LMI> mean, any TLS connection can have user keys/certs connected to them, so
LMI> it seems to me that the right level to control this is on the
LMI> network-stream.el level, and not on the
LMI> smtpmail.el/pop3.el/nntp.el/imap.el level.
LMI> So I think I'll get rid of that variable, and put this stuff into
LMI> network-stream.el instead.
Cool.
LMI> I'm thinking the right place to stash this is in ~/.authinfo, since
LMI> these are credentials. The format will be
LMI> machine smtp.gmail.com port 587 tls-key file:~/.my_smtp_tls.key tls-cert
file:~/.my_smtp_tls.cert
LMI> Any objections?
Why do you need a file: prefix? It should only work with local files
(we pass the file names in `gnutls-boot' to GnuTLS with
`gnutls_certificate_set_x509_key_file' so remote files can't work). We
could support inlined certificates I guess, but it seems like it's
better to assume the token is a file name and extend it later. It's by
far the most common case and the only one gnutls.c supports right now.
Looks good otherwise.
Ted