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Date:      Tue, 12 Dec 2017 17:05:17 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>, Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>, RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>, Michelle Sullivan <michelle@sorbs.net>, Igor Mozolevsky <mozolevsky@gmail.com>, freebsd security <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: http subversion URLs should be discontinued in favor of https URLs
Message-ID:  <26908.1513098317@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <864lovhpvr.fsf@desk.des.no>
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In message <864lovhpvr.fsf@desk.des.no>, =3D?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=3DC3=3D=
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>Let me rephrase: it's not just the source of the key or certificate, but
>the path from that source to you.  There is *always* some level of blind
>trust, and all your suggestion does is move it from one place to
>another.

That is correct, and I don't see any problem in applying the usual
level of trust we use in this project to that cert.

For instance, our core team elections are usually run by some
Norvegian dude who very few committers have actually met in
real life.

But the committers seem to be willing to entrust that task to him
because those of us who have met this Norvegian dude agree that his
zealous pedantry is well suited to running our elections :-)

>The bottom line is, once again, that key distribution is hard, and that
>you shouldn't make infosec decisions without having at least a vague
>outline of a threat model.

Absolutely.

But just to sum up:  We are talking about anonymous checkouts of
our source tree, and as far as my analysis goes, we are long past
this point:

	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DX0bWWtTIPlg

Poul-Henning

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