Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 09:46:27 -0800 From: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> To: Igor Mozolevsky <mozolevsky@gmail.com>, RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>, freebsd security <freebsd-security@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: http subversion URLs should be discontinued in favor of https URLs Message-ID: <5c810101-9092-7665-d623-275c15d4612b@rawbw.com> In-Reply-To: <CADWvR2iGQOtcU=FnU-fNsso2eLCCQn=swnOLoqws%2B33V8VzX1Q@mail.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> <20171205231845.5028d01d@gumby.homeunix.com> <CADWvR2gVn8H5h6LYB5ddwUHYwDtiLCuYndsXhJywi7Q9vNsYvw@mail.gmail.com> <20171210173222.GF5901@funkthat.com> <CADWvR2iGQOtcU=FnU-fNsso2eLCCQn=swnOLoqws%2B33V8VzX1Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On 12/10/17 09:39, Igor Mozolevsky wrote: > There has been no instance of in-transit compromise reported since SVN was > introduced. > > Even when the back-end was compromised, there was not detectable compromise > of the codebase [1]. So even if the codebase was compromised, unless people > *really knew* what they were doing, HTTPS would seed a false sense of > security. This is another incarnation of the bogus argument: https also has some vulnerabilities, so let's just stay with a completely insecure http until some ideal solution will be found in the future. Yuri
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