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Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 13:34:57 +0000
From: Jeremy Stanley <fungi@...goth.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: HTTPS
On 2013-08-15 14:31:19 +0400 (+0400), gremlin@...mlin.ru wrote:
[...]
> Unlike SSH, the HTTPS clients (which usually are the browsers) do
> not cache the visited servers' certificates, fully relying on
> issuing CA's honesty. This introduces a risk of false sence of
> security.
>
> Hmmmm... It seems that keeping self-signed certificates is even
> more safe than relying on "trusted" CAs...
[...]
Dragging this back onto the original topic, hopefully, the above
concerns are far less relevant for a tool focused on downloading
packages from a single site. The gem utility could absolutely pin
its validation expectations to a single signing authority or even to
a single server certificate (and make it a configurable list to
support private package repositories and mirrors where desired). The
transport security implications for a system with basically one
distribution endpoint offer significantly different solutions than a
many-to-many association like Web browsing.
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