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From: ori@eigenstate.org
To: tlaronde@polynum.com, 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] patch smtp: ignore unrecognized certificates
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 07:52:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42C8297FB90A352B862FEB022164F6D9@eigenstate.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200720144654.GA1570@polynum.com>

> It can be quite often. I have a certificate made via cacert.org for
> example. And I have to renew it regularily. I think that
> certificates with too long TTL are considered weak. So it's an
> annoyance.

Hm. I see. Without some sort of check, anyone with a certificate
can MITM. I wonder how crazy it'd be to implement certificate
chain verification.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-20 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <aee5c8d2-ef2b-4ef2-8594-e6786cbd6e2e@sirjofri.de>
2020-07-19  9:43 ` Joel Fridolin Meyer
2020-07-20 14:05   ` [9front] " ori
2020-07-20 14:20     ` hiro
2020-07-20 14:26       ` ori
2020-07-20 14:46         ` tlaronde
2020-07-20 14:52           ` ori [this message]
2020-07-20 15:05             ` tlaronde
2020-07-20 15:09               ` ori
2020-07-20 15:32                 ` hiro
2020-07-21  6:55           ` cinap_lenrek
2020-07-20 16:18     ` cinap_lenrek
2020-07-20 17:16       ` Joel Fridolin Meyer
2020-07-20 22:00       ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-07-20 22:05         ` ori
2020-07-20 22:19           ` Kurt H Maier
2020-07-21 13:02             ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-07-20 22:07         ` ori
2020-07-21 13:46           ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-07-29  7:32             ` sirjofri+ml-9front
2020-07-29  8:04               ` hiro
2020-08-01 10:01               ` cinap_lenrek

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