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From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Are we ready for DNSSEC ?
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:11:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dd6fe68a1001231711u6157bbdcv42c564722749b9de@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8094c7f53bad7b2e0bed09ec4bfd41dc@ladd.quanstro.net>

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 5:01 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>> if the goal is avoiding ssl mitm attacks,
>> dns is the least of your worries. a mitm will
>> just take over the connection attempt for the
>> actual ip address.  the solution there is
>> to implement proper ssl certificate chain checking.
>
> doesn't work with the recent renegotiation bug.

disable renegotiation.

> but i don't
> think one can dismiss dns as a non-issue.

dns is a non-issue if the rest of ssl is working.
dns is irrelevant if it isn't.

russ


  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-24  1:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-20 13:26 maht
2010-01-20 13:42 ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-20 15:14   ` Patrick Kelly
2010-01-20 15:33     ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-20 16:39       ` Patrick Kelly
2010-01-20 16:49         ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-20 17:29           ` Patrick Kelly
2010-01-20 17:47         ` Russ Cox
2010-01-20 18:17           ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-20 20:11             ` Russ Cox
2010-01-20 19:13           ` Patrick Kelly
2010-01-23 23:59 ` John Barham
2010-01-24  0:42   ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-24  0:52     ` Russ Cox
2010-01-24  1:01       ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-24  1:11         ` Russ Cox [this message]
2010-01-24  1:18           ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-24 13:19             ` hiro
2010-01-24 14:57               ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-24 21:49                 ` Russ Cox
2010-01-24 22:12                   ` Tim Newsham
2010-01-24 22:20                     ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-24 18:14           ` Tim Newsham
2010-01-25 20:45             ` Wes Kussmaul

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