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Date:      Fri, 18 Sep 2015 09:00:18 -0500
From:      Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling=20Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org, grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HTTPS on freebsd.org, git, reproducible builds
Message-ID:  <1442584818.1834563.387314497.1AD169D2@webmail.messagingengine.com>
In-Reply-To: <86r3lvdeah.fsf@nine.des.no>
References:  <CAD2Ti2_YNkNi2b=PzFCwu3PVaP8hOzADys3=-k0AqvsDRhJpzA@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.LRH.2.11.1509180646470.14490@nber4.nber.org> <86r3lvdeah.fsf@nine.des.no>

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On Fri, Sep 18, 2015, at 08:53, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org> writes:
> > Is there a reason to encrypt something that is completely public?
>=20
> 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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watering_Hole

--=20
  Mark Felder
  ports-secteam member
  feld@FreeBSD.org



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