Re: The SHA1 sunset

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

John Wiegley <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On the fourth hand, we release Emacs so seldomly that we have to plan for
>> the future, so perhaps it should be in "medium" anyway.
>
> Yeah, that was my thinking.

Mm.  I wonder what the percentage of TLS certificates are SHA-1 these
days...  anybody have statistics?

A user just discovered that the (self-signed) certificate on
news.gmane.org is SHA-1, for instance.  :-)

>> It would have been nice if Emacs had a way to retroactively change these
>> things. I mean, "push" very, very selective security-related updates on
>> users... Hm... could we imagine using the package system for doing security
>> updates? It would mean that Emacs would "call home" once in a while...
>
> Or associate your warnings with times, and after a certain date being
> proclaiming that doom is likely upon them.

:-)

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