HTTPS on freebsd.org, git, reproducible builds

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Fri Sep 18 14:05:42 UTC 2015


Mark Felder <feld at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes:
> > Daniel Feenberg <feenberg at nber.org> writes:
> > > Is there a reason to encrypt something that is completely public?
> > Watering hole attacks.
> Watering hole attack describes the *site* being compromised because it's
> popular and you know the target(s) will go there. HTTPS is irrelevant.

...or a MITM attack on a site that is popular with your target
demographic.

Then again, if you have the means to mount a MITM attack you probably
have the means to get a valid certificate.

DES
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