Re: git and https

[Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>]

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 7:40 AM, Russ Allbery wrote:

> I'm fine with locking the doors.  I'm not fine with paying protection
> money to a Mafia goon who claims they'll lock your windows, and sort of
> sometimes does.  It's the extortion component that pisses me off about
> HTTPS.

LetsEncrypt will save us!

> If we can use a Debian-specific CA, we can do cert pinning, since we're
> then assuming we have some control over the client.  I was assuming a
> general client where we'd have to play nice with the normal CA roots.

Then we would constantly get complaints from Ubuntu/etc
developers/users about why Debian uses invalid certs, as we did before
Debian moved to mafia certs. Unfortunately I don't think it is
possible to use both mafia CAs and non-mafia CAs without adding say a
lot of non-mafia subdomains, like non-mafia.www.debian.org.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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