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Date:      Sun, 10 Dec 2017 23:14:54 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>
Cc:        Michelle Sullivan <michelle@sorbs.net>, Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>, RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>, 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:  <99305.1512947694@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20171210225326.GK5901@funkthat.com>
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In message <20171210225326.GK5901@funkthat.com>, John-Mark Gurney writes:

>IMO, all security needs to be node-to-node. 

There's nothing "IMO" about that.

The end-to-end principle became a bed-rock foundation of all rational
networking with "End to End Arguments in System Design" in 1981.

    http://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/endtoend/endtoend.pdf

The only realistic way for the FreeBSD project to implement end-to-end
trust, is HTTPS with a self-signed cert, distributed and verified
using the projects PGP-trust-mesh and strong social network.

Anything else is just pretend-security today.

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Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
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