[Mixminion-it] GUI updates

[dirtydog a autistici.org]

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Dear all,

just to update you all about progresses with the Thunderbird extension:

- - The decode of messages as been implemented. In order to properly show
the decoded message I had to use a function from EnigMail. I hope making
a similar one so that EnigMail will not be a requirement will not be a
big deal though.

- - The output has been improved, making the user able to see mixminion
output immediately after it has been run and without watching at logs.

- - A few bug fixes and refinements.

- - Unfortunately I couldn't have any try to the TOR stuff yet, sorry.

I made also a lot of tests involving sending forward and reply messages
together with attached surbs. I noticed that I have not been able to
correctly receive replies with attached surbs. In fact, their content is
truncated (it contains "[...]" instead of a consistent part of the
message) and there is no way to decode it and I get

[ERROR] Corrupted data: value seems to be truncated by a
Mixminion/Mixmaster gateway

as error text.

Does anyone have any idea about what may be behind this behavior? Maybe
a bug?

On the web I found this post

http://www.webservertalk.com/archive302-2005-6-1074098.html

and it seems I have been quite unlucky, as the guy lost just 2 out of 15
messages.

I was also wondering about how to generate surbs for multiple message
recipients.
At the moment, if the user specifies more than one recipient, the ui
attaches a different surb for each recipient. This seems to me a sound
and safe choice, but I am not 100% sure it is really needed.
The surb does not contain the whole reply path but just a part of it,
so, if the same surb is given to all the recipients, all the replies
paths will share just a sub-path. Even if their paths are still
distinct, may it be a vulnerability? I guess it is if the common
sub-path contains a compromised node.

As usual, any feedback is more than welcome.

Have a nice day,

bye

Lorenzo

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