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Re: people.debian.org will move from ravel to paradis and become HTTPS only



On Sun, 20 Jul 2014, Steve Langasek wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 09:23:55AM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 20, 2014, at 08:15, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > > > There are lots of attack vectors.  It's not a response to a single
> > > > attack being exploited in the wild.
> 
> > > So name one?
> 
> > Pervasive monitoring. Really we should introduce encryption
> > *everywhere*.
> 
> If this were DSA's position, I would disagree with it, but I would
> understand where they're coming from.  But DSA has *not* said that this is
> the reason for enforcing use of a protocol with significantly higher
> overhead.
> 
> I do think that if DSA are going to enforce such a policy, they should be
> able to explain why.

"What Ondřej said"


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