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Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 23:41:22 +0000
From: mancha <mancha1@...o.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: On sanctioned MITMs

On Sat, May 02, 2015 at 01:58:15AM +0300, Solar Designer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I feel that this is borderline off-topic for oss-security because of
> no specific relevance to Open Source, unless the discussion is somehow
> refocused on aspects that are directly Open Source relevant - e.g.,
> "should we block these CDNs (and how) in Open Source software's
> SSL/TLS certificate validity checks because of those specific risks" -
> that's just an example of what would bring the discussion on-topic for
> this list, not an actual suggestion (I think such blocking would be
> bad).

Hi.

Yes, that might not have been clear because I didn't say so explicitly.
But, implicit in my post was a question of how infosec and its
intersection with OSS (i.e. security policies in FF/Chromium/etc.)
should consider this situation and its implications.

--mancha

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