Improving privacy and security for notmuch mail.
Channel: DebConf Videos
Date: 2017-12-03

by David Bremner

At: DebConf15
https://summit.debconf.org/debconf15/meeting/217/improving-privacy-and-security-for-notmuch-mail/
https://debconf15.debconf.org/

One of (at least my) primary motivations for working on Notmuch [1] is
reducing my dependence on cloud services, and supporting the secure
sending and receiving of signed and encrypted mail.  Like any real
world piece of software, notmuch is far from perfect, and several
areas related to privacy and security could clearly be
improved. During this BoF we'd like to plan out some topics to work on
in followup hacking sessions. Anyone is welcome, even if they don't
feel like hacking on notmuch. Potential topics of discussion and
hacking include:

- S/MIME signatures and encryption
- Improving the security of the Emacs MML mime composer
- Searching of GPG encrypted mail
- Auditing and fixing "webbug" style problems in front ends
- Making notmuch build reproducibly

[1]: http://notmuchmail.org

Room: Amsterdam
Scheduled start: 2015-08-17 17:00:00