Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2015 11:41:03 -0700 From: Mel Pilgrim <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com> To: Dieter BSD <dieterbsd@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why does FreeBSD insist on https? Message-ID: <551EDEBF.5020409@bluerosetech.com> In-Reply-To: <CAA3ZYrAwXOp_5vfUPsEkF82UPaAqNwnTm7dw1ogf-C-X%2Bj730g@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAA3ZYrAwXOp_5vfUPsEkF82UPaAqNwnTm7dw1ogf-C-X%2Bj730g@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2015-04-03 10:59, Dieter BSD wrote: > From what I've read about that attack there are better ways to prevent it > than using https. (I'll leave that as a exercise for the reader.) No, please don't leave it as an exercise for us. That's what security research has been doing for decades. So far the only viable solution is encryption. If you have a better solution than encryption to the problem of in-flight modification of data, I and the rest of human existence would like to hear it.
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