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Date:      Fri, 18 Sep 2015 10:34:35 -0400
From:      Nathan Dorfman <na@rtfm.net>
To:        Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HTTPS on freebsd.org, git, reproducible builds
Message-ID:  <20150918143434.GB15068@vane>
In-Reply-To: <86k2rnddqk.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> <1442584818.1834563.387314497.1AD169D2@webmail.messagingengine.com> <86k2rnddqk.fsf@nine.des.no>

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On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 04:05:39PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Then again, if you have the means to mount a MITM attack you probably
> have the means to get a valid certificate.

If you're that paranoid, there's a nice Firefox extension called CertPatrol
that will alert you to any changes in the certificate's details, or if you
prefer, just the CA chain. Obviously, it won't help you on the first visit --
it's an advanced version of ssh's known_hosts.

-nd.

> DES
> -- 
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no



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