[exim-dev] Re: Variable names

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Author: Jeremy Harris
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To: exim-dev
Subject: [exim-dev] Re: Variable names
On 06/07/2023 17:21, Andrew C Aitchison via Exim-dev wrote:
> I'm writing a CLIENTID extension for exim which will
> add some variables to be used in the exim config.
>
> One of them, call it "token", is unsafe and cannot be safely untainted
> (it is a string of "between 1 and 128 printable characters") so I am
> thinking of exposing a second variable which is the string hex-encoded.


That second one should also be tainted, in that case, so I don't see
it buys you anything. But - why does it matter if the value is
tainted? How is it expected to be used?
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Cheers,
Jeremy


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