Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 16:00:11 -0800 From: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, Dewayne Geraghty <dewayne.geraghty@heuristicsystems.com.au>, Gordon Tetlow <gordon@tetlows.org> Subject: Re: http subversion URLs should be discontinued in favor of https URLs Message-ID: <7bf1420c-2a3c-c9d0-fe91-7e69f9415214@rawbw.com> In-Reply-To: <24380.1512516635@critter.freebsd.dk> 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> <24153.1512513836@critter.freebsd.dk> <1294e5c4-9554-b9f5-8ea9-13aca5411e9a@rawbw.com> <24380.1512516635@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On 12/05/17 15:30, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > The CA conglomerate is broken, trojaned and backdoored, and documented > as such, and therefore HTTPs is a potempkin shell of security. > > Until HTTPS has something more trustworthy than the CA conglomerate > to distribute keys, it is no safer in any respect than plain HTTP. You are wrong. https with all its problems is still safer. If I am browsing through Tor, any exit node operator can easily perform a MITM attack in case of http, which they generally can't do in case of https. In case of https he needs to be a state actor privy to the CA compromise. Yurihelp
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