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Re: Bug#721731: ITP: camo -- SSL image proxy to prevent mixed-content warnings



On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 13:02 -0400, Luke Faraone wrote:

> This provides integrity protection and last-mile confidentiality to
> images, thus preventing a local network attacker from seeing the images
> you request (allowing for possible disclosure of the content you're
> viewing) or changing their content (to misinform, confuse, or shock).
> 
> It of course does not prevent an attacker from modifying the content or
> noticing its access if the attacker is in the path between your
> datacentre and the image source.
> 
> However, even in this case, it provides some security insofar as it
> may prevent the attacker from knowing who is accessing the image.

Ok, that makes sense I guess, I would suggest using that in the package
description rather than what you wrote in the ITP.

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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