From: Damien Cassou <damien@cassou.me>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>, 39419@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39419: On the use of HTTPS for substitute server
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 11:34:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877e11gw52.fsf@cassou.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2c0b7fb7-02af-4920-845e-01ac63a8c831@www.fastmail.com>
"Leo Famulari" <leo@famulari.name> writes:
> So, someone who could MITM as <https://ci.guix.gnu.org> could use their
> own X.509 certificate and pretend to be that server.
IIUC, you agree with me that an attacker can't change the content of
packages but can inspect what a user installs. This seems to contradict
this paragraph:
> HTTPS is recommended because communications are encrypted; conversely,
> using HTTP makes all communications visible to an eavesdropper, who
> could use the information gathered to determine, for instance, whether
> your system has unpatched security vulnerabilities.
If you believe the text is good as it is, please just ignore me and
close the ticket.
Thank you so much for Guix.
--
Damien Cassou
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without
losing enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-05 10:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-04 14:28 bug#39419: On the use of HTTPS for substitute server Damien Cassou
2020-02-04 23:32 ` Leo Famulari
2020-02-05 10:34 ` Damien Cassou [this message]
2020-02-05 18:39 ` Leo Famulari
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