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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Cc: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>,
	Ben Toews <mastahyeti@gmail.com>, Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	Ben Toews <btoews@github.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] gpg-interface: handle alternative signature types
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 14:05:32 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqbmejyc4j.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180414195954.GB14631@genre.crustytoothpaste.net> (brian m. carlson's message of "Sat, 14 Apr 2018 19:59:54 +0000")

"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:

> On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 04:24:27AM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote:
>> How confident are we that _all_ possible signing programs will conform
>> to the "-----BEGIN %s-----" pattern? If we're not confident, then
>> perhaps the user should be providing the full string here, not just
>> the '%s' part?
>
> This is not likely to be true of other signing schemes.  In fact, other
> than OpenPGP, PEM, and CMS (S/MIME), this is probably not true at all.

Hmph.  

That argues more strongly that we would regret unless we make the
end-user configuration to at least the whole string (which later can
be promoted to "a pattern that matches the whole string"), not just
the part after mandatory "-----BEGIN ", methinks.


  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-16  5:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-09 20:41 [PATCH 0/8] gpg-interface: Multiple signing tools Ben Toews
2018-04-09 20:41 ` [PATCH 1/8] gpg-interface: handle bool user.signingkey Ben Toews
2018-04-09 20:55   ` Eric Sunshine
2018-04-10 14:32     ` Jeff King
2018-04-09 20:41 ` [PATCH 2/8] gpg-interface: modernize function declarations Ben Toews
2018-04-09 20:41 ` [PATCH 3/8] gpg-interface: use size_t for signature buffer size Ben Toews
2018-04-09 20:41 ` [PATCH 4/8] gpg-interface: fix const-correctness of "eol" pointer Ben Toews
2018-04-09 20:41 ` [PATCH 5/8] gpg-interface: extract gpg line matching helper Ben Toews
2018-04-09 20:41 ` [PATCH 6/8] gpg-interface: find the last gpg signature line Ben Toews
2018-04-09 21:13   ` Eric Sunshine
2018-04-10  9:44   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-04-10 14:47     ` Ben Toews
2018-04-10 21:04       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-04-10 22:17         ` Junio C Hamano
2018-04-11 15:19           ` Ben Toews
2018-04-09 20:41 ` [PATCH 7/8] gpg-interface: prepare for parsing arbitrary PEM blocks Ben Toews
2018-04-09 20:41 ` [PATCH 8/8] gpg-interface: handle alternative signature types Ben Toews
2018-04-09 21:01   ` Stefan Beller
2018-04-10  8:24   ` Eric Sunshine
2018-04-10 15:00     ` Ben Toews
2018-04-14 19:59     ` brian m. carlson
2018-04-16  5:05       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2018-04-17  0:12         ` brian m. carlson
2018-04-17  1:54           ` Junio C Hamano
2018-04-17 18:08             ` Ben Toews
2018-04-17 18:33               ` Taylor Blau
2018-05-03 16:03                 ` Ben Toews
2018-05-07  9:45           ` Jeff King
2018-05-07 15:18             ` Junio C Hamano
2018-05-07 23:06             ` brian m. carlson
2018-05-08 13:28               ` Jeff King
2018-05-08 23:09                 ` brian m. carlson
2018-05-09  8:03                   ` Jeff King
2018-04-10  9:35   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-04-10 16:01     ` Ben Toews
2018-04-11 10:11   ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-04-13 21:18 ` [PATCH v2 0/9] gpg-interface: Multiple signing tools Ben Toews
2018-04-13 21:18 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] t7004: fix mistaken tag name Ben Toews
2018-04-13 21:18 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] gpg-interface: handle bool user.signingkey Ben Toews
2018-04-13 21:18 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] gpg-interface: modernize function declarations Ben Toews
2018-04-13 21:18 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] gpg-interface: use size_t for signature buffer size Ben Toews
2018-04-13 21:18 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] gpg-interface: fix const-correctness of "eol" pointer Ben Toews
2018-04-13 21:18 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] gpg-interface: extract gpg line matching helper Ben Toews
2018-04-13 21:18 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] gpg-interface: find the last gpg signature line Ben Toews
2018-04-13 21:18 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] gpg-interface: prepare for parsing arbitrary PEM blocks Ben Toews
2018-04-13 21:18 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] gpg-interface: handle alternative signature types Ben Toews

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