On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 11:49 AM, Per Jessen
On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Andreas Stieger
wrote: HTTPS (signed by *any* CA) is a downgrade in security compared to signed metadata and packages.
True.. but just to be clear, we're talking about a specific (but common) scenario, which is when a user downloads the signing key via zypper ref, automatically answering "Trust Always?" with yes.
In this scenario what we have today is delivery of that key via HTTP. I'm suggesting we change this to HTTPS, which is much more secure.
That key isn't confidential (or is it?), so what might be gained by enabling https ?
Delivery of the key is vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack when using only HTTP. Any once you've installed my bogus signing key, I can sign any bogus package I want with it and you would trust it. -Archie -- Archie L. Cobbs -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+owner@opensuse.org