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Date:      Tue, 12 Dec 2017 17:38:08 -0800
From:      Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Cc:        RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>, Igor Mozolevsky <mozolevsky@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: http subversion URLs should be discontinued in favor of https URLs
Message-ID:  <b581be6f-45da-224b-3f68-a27aa43eba14@rawbw.com>
In-Reply-To: <3138231.uiVPfnS2VB@overcee.wemm.org>
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On 12/12/17 16:37, Peter Wemm wrote:
> I think you're missing the point.  It is a sad reality that SSL/TLS corporate
> (and ISP) MITM exists and is enforced on a larger scale than we'd like.  But
> it is there, and when mandated/enforced you have to go through the MITM
> appliance, or not connect at all.  Private CA's generally break those
> appliances - an unfortunate FreeBSD user in this situation is cut off.  How is
> this better?


This is certainly better for users because it informs the user. Now he 
has a choice to use a special override key to use MITMed https anyway or 
refuse, vs. with http he is not informed.


Yuri





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