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secdir: document privacy/security considerations for third-party push #275

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brong opened this issue Jan 5, 2019 · 0 comments
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brong commented Jan 5, 2019

There was a good discussion in the secdir review about the privacy issue present in third party push that we need to document. The key part is this:

This document also has quite a lot of privacy concerns which are not
addressed by it. For example email delivery and event notifications can
leak lots of information even to passive attackers. I.e., if someone
can see that wikileaks smtp server sends email to corporate smtp
server, but the smtp traffic is encrypted so they do not know the
recipient of the email, but then few seconds later see push event
notification stream going to the Joe's laptop indicating something has
happened in his mail box, they can find out the who the recipient was.

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@neilj neilj closed this as completed in a507436 Jan 8, 2019
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