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Date:      Fri, 1 Apr 2011 19:47:23 +0100
From:      =?UTF-8?Q?Istv=C3=A1n?= <leccine@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-security <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>
Subject:   Re: SSL is broken on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <AANLkTi=fqSAMiGtGQO1%2Bt1QbhNY1m_S%2Bx294WX3zHpOK@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110401153300.GA85392@guilt.hydra>
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Yep, SSL is broken.
This why the top500 companies are using it to secure their business. I hope
you have something better what we could implement tomorrow deprecating SSL.

Send the RFC please. :)

Thank you in advance.

I.


On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 03:33:15PM +0100, Istv=C3=A1n wrote:
> >
> > FreeBSD ships OpenSSL but it is broken because there is no CA. Right,
> > it is like shipping a car without wheels, I suppose.
>
> Err . . . now.  SSL isn't broken, any more than vi is broken just because
> it doesn't ship with text files for you to edit.  It would be more like
> shipping a car without giving you a list of roads on which the
> manufacturer suggests you use it.
>
>
> >
> > Is there a reason to do this?
>
> I don't know.  Maybe the guys who made that decision thought that users
> should be able to make their own decisions about who to trust, rather
> than relying on Verisign to make that decision for them.  I'm just
> speculating wildly -- I actually have no idea.
>
> --
> Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
>



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