Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2017 22:43:56 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Gordon Tetlow <gordon@tetlows.org> Cc: Dewayne Geraghty <dewayne.geraghty@heuristicsystems.com.au>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: http subversion URLs should be discontinued in favor of https URLs Message-ID: <24153.1512513836@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <20171205220849.GH9701@gmail.com> References: <97f76231-dace-10c4-cab2-08e5e0d792b5@rawbw.com> <5A2709F6.8030106@grosbein.net> <11532fe7-024d-ba14-0daf-b97282265ec6@rawbw.com> <8788fb0d-4ee9-968a-1e33-e3bd84ffb892@heuristicsystems.com.au> <20171205220849.GH9701@gmail.com>
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-------- In message <20171205220849.GH9701@gmail.com>, Gordon Tetlow writes: >Using this as a reason to not move to HTTPS is a fallacy. We should do >everything we can to help our end-users get FreeBSD in the most secure >way. The vastly oversold "security" of HTTPS is entirely borrowed from a confederation of root-CA's which no non-deluded person can ever seriously trust. Only if you trust *everybody* on this list, is HTTPS "secure": grep '^ *Subject:' /usr/local/share/certs/ca-root-nss.crt And as if that delusion wasn't bad enough, the misguided and simple-minded IT-liberalistic "Encrypt everything" campaign is, 100% as predicted, pushing governments to neuter encryption in order to keep the court systems working. "IETF and what army?" -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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