From: Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
To: arno@natisbad.org (Arnaud Ebalard)
Cc: Daiki Ueno <ueno@unixuser.org>,
499774@bugs.debian.org, RISKO Gergely <risko@debian.org>,
ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Bug#499774: starttls is a joke
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:04:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87prmjjosn.fsf@mocca.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wsh4gjgi.fsf@natisbad.org> (Arnaud Ebalard's message of "Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:48:45 +0200")
arno@natisbad.org (Arnaud Ebalard) writes:
>>>> "This software does not have any authentication capabilities: it does
>>>> not allow you to authenticate your peer, which is a basic requirement
>>>> for TLS/SSL to be used securely. You should only use it for testing
>>>> purposes and not relaying important information. Be aware that you are
>>>> vulnerable to MITM when using it"
>>
>> That seems correct to me.
>>
>> Note that even if you use gnutls-cli, you need to configure it to use
>> appropriate trust anchors to get full security.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> I hope you mean "a working setup". If you do not provide it any (set of)
> trust anchor, it should not be able to verify server's certificate and
> should fail, shouldn't it?
Right, and that's what I meant with "you need to configure it to use
appropriate trust anchors". If you do that, you should get full
security (whatever that means).
/Simon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-02 10:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-22 8:52 Arnaud Ebalard
2008-09-22 9:13 ` RISKO Gergely
2008-09-22 9:49 ` Arnaud Ebalard
2008-09-22 10:43 ` Arnaud Ebalard
2008-09-22 16:15 ` Reiner Steib
2008-09-22 16:38 ` Simon Josefsson
2008-09-22 17:48 ` Arnaud Ebalard
2008-10-02 10:04 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2008-10-07 20:43 ` Matthias Andree
2008-10-07 22:41 ` Simon Josefsson
2008-10-08 10:45 ` Matthias Andree
2008-10-08 11:55 ` Arnaud Ebalard
2008-10-07 20:41 ` Matthias Andree
2008-10-08 5:54 ` Arnaud Ebalard
2008-09-23 17:18 ` Riskó Gergely
2008-09-23 14:43 ` Uwe Brauer
2008-09-24 3:39 ` Sebastian Krause
2008-09-26 13:19 ` Uwe Brauer
2008-09-26 13:25 ` Sebastian Krause
2008-09-26 21:16 ` Uwe Brauer
2008-09-26 23:27 ` Sebastian Krause
2008-09-26 15:09 ` Magnus Henoch
2008-09-26 21:14 ` Uwe Brauer
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