Feature suggestion. Indexing encrypted mail?

[Jeremy Nickurak]

Nonetheess, if you can tell from the index that a given message contains
the words "hotel" "wine" "wife" "secret" and "rendezvous", you can infer a
*lot* about the contents of encrypted contents of the message.


On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Jameson Graef Rollins <
jrollins at finestructure.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 07 2014, john.wyzer at gmx.de wrote:
> >> confess i haven't been following closely), it wouldn't be much extra
> >> effort for someone to implement a filter that strips encryption from the
> >> message.  (this might still have the problem mentioned above about also
> >> stripping PGP/MIME signatures, but the signatures and the decrypted
> >> message itself would remain intact so they could be shown directly by
> >> notmuch show without trouble).
> >
> > I don't understand that. :-(
> > This sounds as if the view of the message is not generated from the
> > mail storage. Isn't the purpose of the index to find the appropriate
> > message file and everything else is generated from that file?
>
> I think that's exactly what Daniel is saying: what's viewed comes from
> the message directly, and not from the db.
>
> jamie.
>
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