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From: "Hanno Böck" <hanno@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 2/2] git-r3.eclass: Explicitly warn about unsecure protocols
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:46:27
Message-Id: 20170825174601.6b000c42@pc1
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 2/2] git-r3.eclass: Explicitly warn about unsecure protocols by Andrew Savchenko
1 On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 11:46:02 +0300
2 Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Sigh... https also makes MITM attacks possible, especially if SSL
5 > or TLS < 1.2 is used or are allowed and protocol version downgrade
6 > attack may be performed.
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8 None of that is true.
9
10 You're probably referring to attacks that were specific to certain
11 browser weaknesses, but they're irrelevant for this use case.
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14 Hanno Böck
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